忸

忸 U+5FF8, 忸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FF8 ← 忷 [U+5FF7] CJK Unified Ideographs 忹 → [U+5FF9]

Translingual

Han character

忸 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 心弓土 (PNG), four-corner 9701₅, composition ⿰忄丑)

1. blush, be bashful, be ashamed

Derived characters

• 𠴐 𫭵 𦛾 𦁁

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 378, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10397
• Dae Jaweon: page 706, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2279, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5FF8

Chinese

trad.		忸
simp. #		忸

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
峱	*nuː
紐	*nuʔ
扭	*nuʔ, *tnuʔ
狃	*nuʔ, *nus
鈕	*nuʔ
忸	*nuʔ, *nuɡ
杻	*nuʔ, *n̥ʰuʔ
莥	*nuʔ
羞	*snu
丑	*n̥ʰuʔ
沑	*njuʔ, *nuɡ
粈	*njuʔ
衄	*nuɡ, *njuɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): niǔ (niu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nuk⁶, nau⁵, nau²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: niǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: niǒu
    • Wade–Giles: niu³
    • Yale: nyǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: neou
    • Palladius: ню (nju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni̯oʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: nuk⁶, nau⁵, nau²
    • Yale: nuhk, náuh, náu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nuk⁹, nau⁵, nau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: nug⁶, neo⁵, neo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nʊk̚²/, /nɐu̯¹³/, /nɐu̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: nrjuwk

Rime
Character	忸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	娘 (12)
Final (韻)	東 (4)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	女六切
Baxter	nrjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɳɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɳiuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/niuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɳuwk̚/
Li Rong	/niuk̚/
Wang Li	/nĭuk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ni̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nuk6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*nuʔ/, /*nuɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	忸	忸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1521	1531
Phonetic component	丑	丑
Rime group	幽	覺
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	狃	肭
Old Chinese	/*nuʔ/	/*nuɡ/

Definitions

忸

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Compounds

• 忸忸怩怩
• 忸怩 (niǔní)
• 忸怩作態／忸怩作态
• 忸捏

 

References

• “忸”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

忸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: にく (niku)
• Kan-on: じく (jiku)^{←ぢく (diku, historical)}
• Kun: はじる (hajiru, 忸じる)

Korean

Hanja

忸 • (nyu>yu) (hangeul 뉴>유, revised nyu>yu, McCune–Reischauer nyu>yu, Yale nyu>yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

忸: Hán Nôm readings: ngượng, nữu, nau

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References

• Nom Foundation