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disgrace / shame / humiliation
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(a feeling of) shame
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  *耻* | 耻* | *耻
(bound form) shame; humiliation; disgrace
to discredit / to defame / to smear sb's name / to bring shame upon (oneself or one's family etc) / to blacken (e.g. commando's face for camouflage) / to black out or obliterate (e.g. censored words)
to have no sense of shame; shameless
to plaster / to render (a wall) / (fig.) to bring shame on / also pr. [mo4 hui1]
lit. look into one's heart, no shame (idiom); with a clear conscience
to blush / to redden (with shame, indignation etc)
to have no sense of shame / brazen
to have the nerve / what a cheek! / to feel no shame / to overcome the shame / (is it) proper? (rhetorical question)
to blush with shame (literary)
honor and shame / sense of honor
Eight Honors and Eight Shames, PRC official moral guidelines
to humiliate / to shame / humiliation / indignity
to be shamed / to be humiliated
to have no sense of shame
lit. hiding the moon, shaming the flowers (idiom) / fig. female beauty exceeding even that of the natural world
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  *忝* | 忝* | *忝
to shame
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  *赧* | 赧* | *赧
blushing with shame
to feel remorse and shame (idiom)
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  *謑* | 謑* | *謑
shame / disgrace
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  *羞* | 羞* | *羞
shy / ashamed / shame / bashful / variant of 饈|馐 / delicacies
(idiom) to bear shame and humiliation
ashamed and sorry / suffering shame and remorse
without any sense of shame / unembarrassed / shameless
to blush in shame / red-faced
lit. a bunch of flowers poked into a pile of manure / fig. a terrible shame (as when a lovely woman marries an odious man)
to have a sense of shame
precepts regarding what is honorable and what is shameful (in particular, refers to the Socialist Concepts on Honors and Disgraces, PRC official moral principles promulgated from 2006) / abbr. for 社會主義榮辱觀|社会主义荣辱观 / also known as the Eight Honors and Eight Shames 八榮八恥|八荣八耻
to love learning is akin to knowledge, to study diligently is akin to benevolence, to know shame is akin to courage (Confucius)
ashamed / embarrassed / not having the face (to meet people) / not daring (out of shame)
(jocular) shame on you!
to blush with shame
no shame, no subterfuge (idiom); just and honorable / upright and above board
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom); fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom) / fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
shame / disgrace
to bring shame to / to smear / to disgrace
to feel powerless and full of shame (idiom)
to feel gratitude mixed with shame
sweating from shame / extremely ashamed
lit. look into one's heart, no shame (idiom); with a clear conscience
to know no shame / to be totally shameless
ashamed / embarrassed / not having the face (to meet people) / not daring (out of shame)
(idiom) to be unable to return to one's hometown due to the shame of failure (originally referred to Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽, who chose not to retreat to Jiangdong after his humiliating defeat)
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  *臊* | 臊* | *臊
shame / bashfulness / to shame / to humiliate
to slut-shame
to know shame / to feel shame (often with a negative, shameless)
even the most brazen person will sometimes feel shame (idiom)


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