Chinese symbol for “blushing”
赧然
nǎn rán
blushing; embarrassed
The closest CC-CEDICT match for blushing is 赧然 (nǎn rán), defined as: blushing; embarrassed.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “blushing”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 赧然.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 羞赧 | xiū nǎn | (literary) embarrassed; bashful |
| 愧赧 | kuì nǎn | to blush in shame; red-faced |
| 虽然 (雖然) | suī rán | although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是 (kě shì) or 但是 (dàn shì) etc) |
| 然后 (然後) | rán hòu | then; after that; afterwards |
| 当然 (當然) | dāng rán | only natural; as it should be |
| 自然 | zì rán | nature; natural |
| 然而 | rán ér | however; but; yet |
| 仍然 | réng rán | still; as before; yet |
See also: Japanese symbol for “blushing”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.