Chinese symbol for “embarrassing”
尬
gà
(bound form) embarrassing; awkward
The closest CC-CEDICT match for embarrassing is 尬 (gà), defined as: (bound form) embarrassing; awkward.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “embarrassing”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 没趣 (沒趣) | méi qù | embarrassing; dull |
| 糗 | qiǔ | dry rations (for a journey); (dialect) (of noodles etc) to become mush (from overcooking) |
| 可蠢 | kě chǔn | (dialect) unbearable; embarrassing |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 尬.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尴尬 (尷尬) | gān gà | awkward; embarrassed |
| 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 “embarrassing”.
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.