# 忸

| 忸 | U+5FF8, &#24568; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FF8 |
| ← 忷 [U+5FF7] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 忹 → [U+5FF9] |

## Translingual
### Han character

忸 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 心弓土 (PNG), four-corner 9701$_5$, composition ⿰忄丑)
* blush, be bashful, be ashamed

#### Derived characters

* 𠴐 𫭵 𦛾 𦁁

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 378, character 27
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10397
* Dae Jaweon: page 706, character 26
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2279, character 1
* Unihan data for U+5FF8

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 峱 | *nuː |
| 紐 | *nuʔ |
| 扭 | *nuʔ, *tnuʔ |
| 狃 | *nuʔ, *nus |
| 鈕 | *nuʔ |
| 忸 | *nuʔ, *nuɡ |
| 杻 | *nuʔ, *n̥ʰuʔ |
| 莥 | *nuʔ |
| 羞 | *snu |
| 丑 | *n̥ʰuʔ |
| 沑 | *njuʔ, *nuɡ |
| 粈 | *njuʔ |
| 衄 | *nuɡ, *njuɡ |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): niǔ (niu$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄡˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): nuk$^6$ / nau$^5$ / nau$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: niǔ
*** Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄡˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: niǒu
*** Wade–Giles: niu$^3$
*** Yale: nyǒu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: neou
*** Palladius: ню (nju)
*** Sinological IPA : /ni̯oʊ̯²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: nuk$^6$ / nau$^5$ / nau$^2$
*** Yale: nuhk / náuh / náu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: nuk$^9$ / nau$^5$ / nau$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: nug$^6$ / neo$^5$ / neo$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /nʊk̚²/, /nɐu̯¹³/, /nɐu̯³⁵/
* Middle Chinese: nrjuwk
Rime :
| Character | 忸 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 娘 (12) |
| Final (韻) | 屋 (4) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 女六切 |
| Baxter | nrjuwk |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɳɨuk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɳiuk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /niuk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɳuwk̚/ |
| Li Rong | /niuk̚/ |
| Wang Li | /nĭuk̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ni̯uk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | nù |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | nuk$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*nuʔ/, /*nuɡ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 忸 | 忸 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 1521 | 1531 |
| Phonetic component | 丑 | 丑 |
| Rime group | 幽 | 覺 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 狃 | 肭 |
| Old Chinese | /*nuʔ/ | /*nuɡ/ |

### Definitions

忸
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#### Compounds

* 忸忸怩怩
* 忸怩 (niǔní)
* 忸怩作態／忸怩作态
* 忸捏

### References

* “忸”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: にく (niku)
* Kan-on: じく (jiku)
* Kun: はじる (hajiru, 忸じる)

## Korean
### Hanja

忸 • (nyu>yu) (hangeul 뉴>유, revised nyu>yu, McCune–Reischauer nyu>yu, Yale nyu>yu)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

忸: Hán Nôm readings: ngượng, nữu, nau
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#### References

* Nom Foundation