糗 — Chinese character
糗
qiǔ
dry rations; mushy, overcooked; embarrassing
- Pinyin
- qiǔ
- Radical
- 119 ⽶ (Rice)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 米 臭
- Formation
- ideographic — Rice 米 that stinks 臭; 臭 also provides the pronunciation
Common words with 糗
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 出糗 | chū qiǔ | (coll.) to have sth embarrassing happen |
| 糗事 | qiǔ shì | awkward incident |
| 糗粮 (糗糧) | qiǔ liáng | dry rations |
| 羹藜含糗 | gēng lí hán qiǔ | nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet; à la guerre comme à la guerre |
| 羹藜唅糗 | gēng lí hān qiǔ | nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet; à la guerre comme à la guerre |
| 饭糗茹草 (飯糗茹草) | fàn qiǔ rú cǎo | (lit.) to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom); (fig.) to live in abject poverty |
糗 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.