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羞恥心 (しゅうちしん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Meanings 1
noun
sense of shame ; shyness
Refers to an internal moral or social awareness that restrains one from doing something improper; often used in contexts of modesty, embarrassment, or conscience.
羞しゅう
恥ち
心しん
を
捨す
て
て
、
思おも
い
切き
っ
て
告こく
白はく
し
た
。
I threw away my shyness and confessed my feelings.
Similar words 恥はじ 恥 is a more general and common word for shame or embarrassment, while 羞恥心 specifically denotes the internal sense or feeling of shame as a psychological trait.
羞しゅう 恥ち 羞恥 is a more formal or literary term for shame, often used in compounds; 羞恥心 adds 心 (heart/mind) to emphasize the internal sense or conscience.
Etymology Compound of 羞恥 (shame, from Middle Chinese) and 心 (heart, mind). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word is conventionally associated with the concept of an internal sense of shame.
