愧 (kwai5 kwai3 | kui4) : ashamed; conscience-stricken

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愧

kwai5 kwai3

kui4

[1] [adj] ashamed; conscience-stricken; abashed
[2] [v] feel ashamed; have guilty conscience

Jyutping kwai5 has prevailed over kwai3 in being regarded as standard.

Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 13

Level: 2

Radical: 心 (#61)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

愧

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 9th Feb 2011 05:29

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不愧 bat1 kwai3 bu4*2 kui4 = be worthy; be deserving

慚愧 caam4 kwai3 can2 kui4 = ashamed

羞愧 sau1 kwai3 xiu1 kui4 = ashamed

愧疚 kwai3 gau3 kui4 jiu4 = to feel ashamed, to have a guilty conscience

受之有愧 sau6 zi1 jau5 kwai5 = feeling that one does not deserve sth. (guilty feeling)

Showing all 2 examples containing 愧

你不愧係爸爸嘅仔粵
You should be proud to be your father's son.
[lit. you no shame be father [possessive particle] boy]

不愧係爸爸嘅仔粵
You're worthy of being your father's son.
[Lit. worthy be father [possessive particle] boy]

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Decimal representation of this word: 愧
Unicode code for this character: U+6127 (off-site link)

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