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窘

jiǒng

Character

What 窘 means

1. distressed
2. embarrassed

Example sentences

• 我窘得想找个洞钻进去。
  Wǒ jiǒng de xiǎng zhǎo gè dòng zuānjìn qù.
  I'm so embarrassed I could dig a hole and crawl into it.

Words starting with 窘

• 窘迫jiǒng pòpoverty-stricken; very poor; hard-pressed
• 窘境jiǒng jìngawkward situation; predicament
• 窘匮jiǒng kuìdestitute; impoverished
• 窘况jiǒng kuàngpredicament

Words containing 窘

• 困窘kùn jiǒngembarrassment
• 受窘shòu jiǒngembarrassed; bothered; in an awkward position
• 发窘fā jiǒngto feel embarrassment; disconcerted; embarrassed

Characters that look like 窘

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 商shāngcommerce; merchant; dealer
• 普pǔgeneral; popular; everywhere
• 裔yì(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 华裔; (literary) distant lands
• 窟kūcave; hole
• 寝qǐn(bound form) to lie down to sleep or rest; (bound form) bedroom…
• 窖jiàocellar; to store in a cellar

Sounds the same

Read jiǒng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 炯bright; clear
• 迥distant
• 炅(literary) bright; shining; brilliance
• 囧(archaic) light, bright (variant of 冏; (since c. 2005)…
• 冏velvetleaf (Abutilon avicennae), plant of the jute family; bright
• 泂vast
• 煚fire
• 颎blaze; bright
• 澃clear
• 䌹monotone garment with no lining
• 褧monotone garment with no lining
• 綗variant of 䌹