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HSK
7-9

ashamed

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

kui4 kuì

Meaning


Primary

ashamed

Alternatives

shame

Mnemonic


[ku-] Koopa Troopa is in the [4] bathroom of the [-(e)i] beach house by the bay where he is going to the bathroom. Suddenly a sand 鬼 ghost comes out from behind the shower curtain, seeing Koopa Troopa without his shell on! Koopa is so 愧 ashamed at his naked body that he dies of 愧 shame, falling to the tile ground of the beach house bathroom. His 忄 soul leaves his body and floats out of the bathroom towards the sky. His soul is red because he is so 愧 ashamed at what has happened as he looks at the bay that his soul is now leaving.

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