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出丑

chū chǒu

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 出醜

出丑 (chū chǒu) means "shameful; scandalous; to be humiliated". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 出丑 means

1. to make a fool of oneself

The characters in 出丑

• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield
• 丑chǒuclown; 2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year…

Example sentences

• 汤姆在玛莉面前出丑了。
  Tom made a fool of himself in front of Mary.

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chū chǒu correctly.
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