Memory phrase for the character: 惭

惭

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Meaning

ashamed, disgrace

Pronunciation

cán

Explanation

 Left: feelings 忄, right: to chop, cut 斩 (The vehicle 車 was chopped by an axe 斤)

Mnemonic
 
The feeling as if being chopped, that is the: shame.

Radicals

忄 feelings
斩 to chop




 Vocabulary

惭愧 cán kuì  ashamed
自惭形秽 zì cán xíng huì  to feel ashamed of one's inferiority (idiom); to feel inferior
羞惭 xiū cán  a disgrace; ashamed
羞惭 xiū cán  

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