Chinese symbol for “humiliation”
耻
chǐ
Traditional: 恥
(bound form) shame; humiliation; disgrace
The closest CC-CEDICT match for humiliation is 耻 (chǐ), defined as: (bound form) shame; humiliation; disgrace.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “humiliation”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 羞辱 | xiū rǔ | to humiliate; to shame |
| 丢脸 (丟臉) | diū liǎn | to lose face; humiliation |
| 耻辱 (恥辱) | chǐ rǔ | disgrace; shame |
| 欺辱 | qī rǔ | to humiliate; humiliation |
| 抛脸 (拋臉) | pāo liǎn | to lose face; humiliation |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 耻.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 耻辱 (恥辱) | chǐ rǔ | disgrace; shame |
| 无耻 (無恥) | wú chǐ | without any sense of shame; unembarrassed |
| 羞耻 (羞恥) | xiū chǐ | (a feeling of) shame |
| 可耻 (可恥) | kě chǐ | shameful; disgraceful |
| 国耻 (國恥) | guó chǐ | national humiliation, refers to Japanese incursions into China in the 1930s and 40s, and more especially to Mukden railway incident of 18th |
| 耻笑 (恥笑) | chǐ xiào | to sneer at sb; to ridicule |
See also: Japanese symbol for “humiliation”.
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.