耻
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(bound form) shame; humiliation; disgrace
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 耳 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 恥
- Common rank
- #2,074
- Unicode
- U+803B
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Formation & memory
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Words with 耻
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一雪前耻 | to wipe away a humiliation (idiom) | |
| 不耻下问 | not feel ashamed to ask and learn from one's subordinates | |
| 好学近乎知，力行近乎仁，知耻近乎勇 | to love learning is akin to knowledge, to study diligently is akin to benevolence, to know… | |
| 病耻感 | stigma attached to a disease | |
| 八荣八耻 | Eight Honors and Eight Shames, PRC official moral guidelines | |
| 报仇雪耻 | to take revenge and erase humiliation (idiom) | |
| 不知羞耻 | to have no sense of shame; brazen | |
| 国耻 | national humiliation, refers to Japanese incursions into China in the 1930s and 40s, and m… | |
| 无耻 | without any sense of shame; unembarrassed; shameless | |
| 可耻 | shameful; disgraceful; ignominious | |
| 奇耻大辱 | (idiom) a great humiliation; a huge embarrassment | |
| 礼义廉耻 | (idiom) propriety, justice, integrity and a sense of shame (i.e. the four social bonds, 四維… | |
| 厚颜无耻 | shameless | |
| 荒淫无耻 | shameless | |
| 知耻 | to have a sense of shame | |
| 耻毛 | pubic hair | |
| 耻骨 | pubis; pubic bone | |
| 恬不知耻 | to have no sense of shame | |
| 雪耻 | to take revenge for a past insult; to expunge a disgrace or humiliation | |
| 耻笑 | to sneer at sb; to ridicule |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 止 — compare how they read.