Chinese symbol for “embarrassed”
尴尬
gān gà
Traditional: 尷尬
awkward; embarrassed
The closest CC-CEDICT match for embarrassed is 尴尬 (gān gà), defined as: awkward; embarrassed.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “embarrassed”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 难为情 (難為情) | nán wéi qíng | embarrassed |
| 讪讪 (訕訕) | shàn shàn | embarrassed |
| 害羞 | hài xiū | shy; embarrassed |
| 受窘 | shòu jiǒng | embarrassed; bothered |
| 难堪 (難堪) | nán kān | hard to take; embarrassed |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 尴尬.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尬意 | gà yì | (Tw) to like; to prefer |
| 尬笑 | gà xiào | (coll.) to laugh or smile out of awkwardness |
| 尬聊 | gà liáo | (slang) awkward conversation; to have a cringeworthy conversation |
| 尬舞 | gà wǔ | (slang) to battle each other in street dancing (derived from Taiwanese 較, which sounds similar to Mandarin 尬 (gà)); (slang) to perform weird |
| 尬电 (尬電) | gà diàn | (Tw) (Internet slang) (loanword) goddamn |
See also: Japanese symbol for “embarrassed”.
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.