ashamed and remorseful; abashed

to deserve to be called; to prove oneself to be; used to indicate that someone fully deserves a certain reputation or title, often followed by [[是|是|shi4]] or [[为|為|wei2]]

to feel guilty or ashamed; to be conscience-stricken or remorseful

feeling uneasy or guilty because of one's own mistakes or failures

fully deserve a title, honor, or praise without any reservations; to be entirely worthy of a certain reputation

to have nothing to be ashamed of; to feel no qualms

lit. look into one's heart and feel no shame; used to describe someone whose actions are honorable and who has nothing to feel guilty about

to have a guilty conscience; to have qualms or feel regret about something

To feel ashamed or embarrassed because one is not as good as others; to feel inferior to others.

to feel ashamed or guilty when facing someone because one has failed them or let them down

shamefaced expression; a look of shame or embarrassment

A polite expression used when receiving a gift or honors to express that one feels unworthy or ashamed of such treatment; I feel ashamed to receive this

I am ashamed and do not deserve such honor; a polite expression used when receiving a compliment or award, meaning "you flatter me too much"

to feel ashamed and remorseful

to feel ashamed; to have a guilty conscience

To feel ashamed or embarrassed because one is not as good as others; (idiom) to acknowledge that one is inferior to someone else.

to feel gratitude and shame at the same time

to be ashamed and sorry; to suffer from shame and remorse

to have nothing to be ashamed of; to have a clear conscience toward heaven and other people. Derived from a passage in Mencius regarding being without shame looking up at heaven or down at men.

to feel no regret or guilt; to feel that one has a clear conscience about something

to have nothing to feel ashamed of before God or heaven; to have a clear conscience regarding one's actions. Often paired with [[俯不怍于人|俯不怍於人|fu3 bu4 zuo4 yu2 ren2]] to describe a person of complete integrity.

to turn red in the face from embarrassment or a sense of shame

to examine one's own heart and feel no shame; to have a clean conscience about one's actions

To feel ashamed of one's own relative lack of ability while greatly admiring the skill of another person.

(idiom) to act in a just and honorable way without feeling any shame; upright and aboveboard; to feel neither ashamed before heaven nor embarrassed before others

(idiom) not ashamed to ask questions or learn from those in a lower position

To be honest and upright even in private; literally, to have nothing to be ashamed of even in the darkest corner of one's room.

to have a clear conscience; to feel no shame before heaven or fellow man

to behave with integrity even when unobserved; to have a clear conscience even in the privacy of one's own room

to feel that one does not deserve a certain honor, praise, or gift; often used as a polite way to decline a compliment or an award

To be moved by gratitude and simultaneously filled with shame; a mix of thankfulness and regret.

(literary) to feel ashamed; to be full of remorse

to feel ashamed or bashful

ashamed and remorseful to the point of feeling there is no place to hide

(literary) to be so ashamed that one breaks into a sweat; extremely ashamed

feeling painful regret or deep sorrow due to shame or guilt

To feel deeply ashamed or embarrassed beyond words.

to feel ashamed because one considers oneself inferior to others

to feel shame; to be humiliated; to feel a sense of disgrace

to blush with shame; to be bashful and remorseful

to feel a twinge of guilt; to feel that one has done something wrong when examining one's own motives or actions