羞

• Moral/Emotional: Internalized modesty and reserve; acute visceral shame or embarrassment; objective disgrace.
• Ritual/Material (Archaic): Food offerings, specifically grain, presented to ancestors or spirits.

• Noun: A disgrace; a source of shame.
• Adjective/Stative Verb: To be ashamed, shy, or disgraced.
• Transitive Verb: To humiliate or bring shame upon another (less common).

• 羞 vs. 恥: While often interchangeable, 恥 typically denotes a social category, stigma, or objective loss of face, whereas 羞 tends toward the visceral and psychological internal reaction.
• Shyness: In later strata, the sense of shyness may shift from moral modesty toward timidity or social anxiety.

• Fanqie reading: 息流

// Tang-period reading: //siou