漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
醜: ugly, unclean
Also: shame, bad looking
JLPT N117 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
鬼 carries the meaning · 酉 carries meaning and sound
17 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
シュウshuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 醜女しゅうじょugly woman; unattractive woman
- 醜態しゅうたいdisgraceful behavior; disgraceful behaviour
- 醜聞しゅうぶんscandal
- 醜悪しゅうあくugly; unsightly; hideous
みにくいminikui · kun'yomi · on its own
- 醜いみにくいugly; unattractive; bad-looking
Also read しこ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Cheers to the harvest! This radical represents the ancient jars of fermented wine and the bounty of the ripened earth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
The 酉 sound family doesn't share one reading.
鬼
Also built on ghost (鬼)
In ChineseSimplified 丑 · traditional, as in Japanese · chǒu
Japan keeps the traditional form 醜; mainland China simplifies it to 丑.
- Simplified
- 丑 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 醜 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin chǒu 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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