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)

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

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/

Middle Chinese: nrjuwk

Rime
Character	忸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	娘 (12)
Final (韻)	屋 (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/
Bernhard 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

(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