xiū​sè

shy

  • created sense approved 羞涩/羞澀 · xiū​sè · shy — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    羞涩 / 羞澀

    xiū​sè

    shy

    shy; bashful; embarrassed; behaving unnaturally due to shyness

    羞 (literal) → 羞 · xiū · shy 涩 (literal) → 涩/澀 · sè · awkward

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    created sense

  • created sense approved 羞涩/羞澀 · xiū​sè · impoverished — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    羞涩 / 羞澀

    xiū​sè

    impoverished

    (literary) poor; short of money; financially embarrassed, especially in the phrase [[囊中羞涩|囊中羞澀|nang2 zhong1 xiu1 se4]]

    羞 (literal) → 羞 · xiū · shy 涩 (literal) → 涩/澀 · sè · awkward

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense