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恥をかく
はじをかく
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to be embarrassed, to lose face
Taken apart
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Written with 恥
In a sentence
彼は彼女に恥をかかされた。
He was humiliated by her.
彼はうそをついて恥をかいた。
He disgraced himself by telling a lie.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “恥(はじ) (haji, “shame”) + を (o, object marker) + 掻(か)く (kaku)”
Source: Wiktionary: 恥をかく (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.