糗
qiǔQiǔ

parched wheat or rice

糗 qiǔ frequency
embarrassing verb
(colloquial) embarrassing, awkward, or an embarrassing incident

当众出丑，今天真是糗大了。

dāng​zhòng chū​chǒu, jīn​tiān zhēn shì qiǔ dà le.

I made a fool of myself in public; it was so embarrassing today.

mushy verb
(dialect) of noodles or other food becoming soft or mushy from overcooking or sitting too long

面条煮太久就糗了，不好吃。

miàn​tiáo zhǔ tài jiǔ jiù qiǔ le, bù hǎo​chī.

The noodles will get soggy and clumped if cooked too long, and won't taste good.

rations noun
dry rations for a journey

古人出远门时，会带上糗这种容易保存的干粮。

gǔ​rén chū yuǎn​mén shí, huì dài​shàng qiǔ zhè zhǒng róng​yì bǎo​cún de gān​liáng.

When people in ancient times traveled long distances, they would bring 'qiu,' a type of dry ration that was easy to preserve.

糗 Qiǔ
Qiu proper name
surname Qiu

糗先生是这家书店的老板，平时对人非常客气。

Qiǔ xiān​sheng shì zhè jiā shū​diàn de lǎo​bǎn, píng​shí duì rén fēi​cháng kè​qi.

Mr. Qiu is the owner of this bookstore; he is usually very polite to everyone.

Frequency
Character
Written text
6,352nd most common 0.186 per million
Movie subtitles
3,084th most common 3.05 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.26 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
2.03 per million

Details
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+7CD7

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)