chǐ
shame
Phonosemantic compound. 耳 represents the meaning and 止 represents the sound. Simplified form of 恥.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 耻
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
unembarrassed | ||
disgrace | ||
(a feeling of) shame | ||
shameful | ||
shame |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 15.7617% of movies
1754th most common character in movies
2169th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+803B |
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