noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb
ashamed and angry; feeling both shame and resentment
Archaic literary term describing a complex emotional state of being ashamed and simultaneously angry or resentful. Not used in modern everyday Japanese.
慚恚の念にかられる。
To be seized by feelings of shame and anger.
彼は慚恚して言葉もなかった。
He was so ashamed and angry that he was at a loss for words.
Rare kanji form; the word itself is archaic and literary.
Variant kanji form; equally rare and archaic.
Compound of 慚 (ざん, 'shame') and 恚 (い, 'anger'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; it appears in classical Chinese and was adopted into literary Japanese.