漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
恥: shame, dishonor
JLPT N310 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
心 carries the meaning · 耳 gives the sound
10 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
チchi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 恥辱ちじょくdisgrace, shame
- 羞恥心しゅうちしんshyness
- 厚顔無恥なこうがんむちなbrazen and unscrupulous
はじるhajiru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 恥じるはじるfeel ashamed
はじhaji · kun'yomi
- 恥はじshame, embarrassment
はずかしいhazukashii · kun'yomi
- 恥ずかしいはずかしいshy, be embarrassed
Also read はじらう, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The ancient character once looked like a beating heart with its arteries. Today, 心 represents the very center of who we are—the place where our feelings bloom, our thoughts grow, and our spirit resides.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
The 耳 sound family doesn't share one reading.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side恥 shame · 心
vs取 take · 又In ChineseSimplified 耻 · traditional, as in Japanese · chǐ
Japan keeps the traditional form 恥; mainland China simplifies it to 耻.
- Simplified
- 耻 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 恥 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin chǐ most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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