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惭

cán

ashamed, humiliated; shameful

🔤 Pictophonetic: 忄 (heart) provides meaning, 斩 provides pronunciation

HSK 5 11 strokes Common (30%)

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Component Breakdown

Each color represents a different component

to chop, to cut, to sever; to behead

⿰忄斩 i

Stroke Order

Component Tree i

xīn

忄

heart; mind; soul

3 strokes

zhǎn

斩

to chop, to cut, to sever; to behead

🔤 Pictophonetic: 斤 (axe) provides meaning, 车 provides pronunciation

8 strokes HSK 6

chē

车

cart, vehicle; to move in a cart

📷 Pictographic: Simplified form of 車, a cart with two wheels, seen from above

4 strokes HSK 1

qī

七

seven

2 strokes HSK 1

shí

十

ten, tenth; complete; perfect

2 strokes HSK 1

jīn

斤

a catty (about 500 grams); an axe; keen, shrewd

4 strokes HSK 3

chǎng

厂

cliff; factory, workshop; building

2 strokes HSK 5

xià

下

below, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next

💡 Ideographic: One stroke under another; compare 上 (above)

3 strokes HSK 1

yī

一

one; a, an; alone

💡 Ideographic: Represents heaven (天), earth (旦), or the number 1

1 strokes HSK 1

卜

divination, fortune-telling; prophecy

📷 Pictographic: A crack on an oracle bone

2 strokes

Words Using 惭 (5)

Character

Pinyin

Definition

HSK

to boast shamelessly / to talk big

dàyánbùcán

大言不惭 ↗

to boast shamelessly / to talk big

自惭形秽 ↗

zìcánxínghuì

to feel ashamed of one's inferiority (idiom) / to feel inferior

zìcánxínghuì

自惭形秽 ↗

to feel ashamed of one's inferiority (idiom) / to feel inferior