羞

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shy; ashamed; shame; bashful; variant of 饈|馐[xiu1]; delicacies

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

An ugly 丑 sheep 羊

Components 羊丑

shy · Heisig RSH #2947

wool + 丑 clown

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
老羞成怒	lǎo xiū chéng nù	see 惱羞成怒\|恼羞成怒[nao3 xiu1 cheng2 nu4]
闭月羞花	bì yuè xiū huā	lit. hiding the moon, shaming the flowers (idiom); fig. female beauty exceeding even that …
羞红	xiū hóng	to blush
点名羞辱	diǎn míng xiū rǔ	to attack publicly; to stage a denunciation campaign
不知羞耻	bù zhī xiū chǐ	to have no sense of shame; brazen
碍口识羞	ài kǒu shí xiū	tongue-tied for fear of embarrassment (idiom)
羞愧难当	xiū kuì nán dāng	to feel ashamed (idiom)
羞于启齿	xiū yú qǐ chǐ	to be too shy to speak one's mind (idiom)
含羞草	hán xiū cǎo	mimosa; sensitive plant (that closes its leaves when touched)
蒙羞	méng xiū	to be shamed; to be humiliated
羞脸	xiū liǎn	to blush with shame
识羞	shí xiū	to know shame; to feel shame (often with a negative, shameless)
害羞	hài xiū	shy; embarrassed; bashful
囊中羞涩	náng zhōng xiū sè	to be embarrassingly short of money
遮羞布	zhē xiū bù	loincloth; (fig.) fig leaf; CL:塊\|块[kuai4]
羞羞脸	xiū xiū liǎn	(jocular) shame on you!
恼羞成怒	nǎo xiū chéng nù	(idiom) to become enraged over a perceived humiliation
荡妇羞辱	dàng fù xiū rǔ	to slut-shame
羞答答	xiū dā dā	bashful
珍羞	zhēn xiū	variant of 珍饈\|珍馐[zhen1 xiu1]

These characters use 羞 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
羞 sound part	xiū	shame, disgrace; shy, ashamed
馐	xiū	food, meal; to eat; to offer