jiǒng
embarrassed
Phonosemantic compound. 穴 represents the meaning and 君 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 窘
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
predicament | ||
very poor | ||
distressed | ||
embarrassment | ||
embarrassed |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.4897% of movies
3275th most common character in movies
2979th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+7A98 |
Shuowen | “窘，迫也。从穴，君聲。” |
Sources
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