chǒu shameful; ugly; disgraceful

Made up of [ one radical 1]
Alternative traditional form of character:
Made with 4 strokes.
Original form was a bottle with an evil spirit suggesting a drunken malevolence the new form uses the character for a clown

Related characters


Also uses component: bǎi (hundred) bǐng (third in order) ; (no; not) ; dàn (dawn) ; (virtue) ; huà (to draw) ; huò (maybe) ; jiāng (border) ; kāi (begin) ; (beautiful) ; liǎng (pair) ; měng (Mongol) ; miè (to extinguish) ; qiě (and) ; shì (life) ; (to give) ; zài (again) ; zhèng (correct)

Different tone

chóu (silk)

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Pronunciation

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stroke order for 丑
Stroke order for character 丑, kindly provided under Wikimedia creative commons license

Proverbs

家丑不可外扬 jiā chǒu bù kě wài yáng Keep family problems within the family