醜
醜 — chu
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 추할 추
- Romanization
- chu
- English
- ugly looking, homely; disgraceful
- Mandarin
- chǒu
- Japanese on'yomi
- シュウ, シュ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- みにく.い しこ
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #2,074 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 酉 (164, 10 residual)
- Unicode
- U+919C
Parts that make up 醜
How 醜 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 醜 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 酉, 鬼.
Korean example words with 醜
- 추상醜像 Korean gloss: 더러운 형상
- 추남醜男 Korean gloss: 얼굴이 못생긴 남자
- 추녀醜女 Korean gloss: 얼굴이 못생긴 여자
- 추물醜物 Korean gloss: 더럽고 지저분한 물건
- 추문醜聞 Korean gloss: 추잡하고 좋지 못한 소문
- 추태醜態 Korean gloss: 더럽고 지저분한 태도나 짓
- 추명醜名 Korean gloss: 깨끗하지 못한 일로 더러운 평판이 난 이름
- 면추免醜 Korean gloss: 얼굴이 추한 정도는 겨우 면함. 흔히 여자에게 쓰는 말이다
- 노추하다老醜 Korean gloss: 늙고 추하다
- 추악하다醜惡 Korean gloss: 더럽고 흉악하다
- 추졸하다醜拙 Korean gloss: 지저분하고 졸렬하다
- 추행하다醜行 Korean gloss: 강간이나 그와 비슷한 짓을 하다
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 醜
- 醜いみにくい ugly; unattractive; bad-looking
- 醜態しゅうたい disgraceful behavior; disgraceful behaviour; shameful conduct
- 醜聞しゅうぶん scandal
- 醜悪しゅうあく ugly; unsightly; hideous
- 醜女しゅうじょ ugly woman; unattractive woman; female demon
- 醜しゅう ugliness; shame; disgrace
- 美醜びしゅう beauty or ugliness; personal appearance; looks
- 醜行しゅうこう disgraceful (scandalous) conduct; shameful behavior; shameful behaviour
- 醜名しゅうめい scandal
- 醜状しゅうじょう disgraceful state of affairs
- 醜業しゅうぎょう prostitution
- 醜類しゅうるい evil-doers
Other hanja read “추”
Other hanja with radical 酉
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