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内疚

nèijiù

guilty conscience

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

guilty conscience

02

to feel a twinge of guilt

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 内疚 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 内疚 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

你让我感到很内疚。nǐ ràng wǒ gǎn dào hěn nèi jiù。

You make me feel so guilty.

我对自己的作为很内疚。wǒ duì zì jǐ de zuò wéi hěn nèi jiù。

I'm very ashamed of myself about what I've done.

我没请他来参加庆祝会,感到有点内疚。wǒ méi qǐng tā lái cān jiā qìng zhù huì, gǎn dào yǒu diǎn nèi jiù。

I feel a little guilty that I didn't invite him to join the celebration.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 内疚.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 内疚.

Directly before

  • 很内疚4
  • 有点内疚1
  • 感觉内疚1

Directly after

  • 内疚吗1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 内疚

What does 内疚 mean in Chinese?

内疚 (nèijiù) means guilty conscience.

How do you pronounce 内疚?

内疚 is pronounced nèijiù.

Is 内疚 an HSK word?

内疚 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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