Japanese Kanji
恥chi
shame · dishonor
Secondary school · JLPT N2 · 10 strokes
Shame, dishonor.
恥 is part of the secondary school jōyō kanji — the full set of characters used in everyday Japanese. In the JLPT proficiency test it appears at N2 (upper intermediate) level. With 10 strokes, this character appears in numerous compound words throughout written Japanese.
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