惭愧 (cánkuì) means Ashamed. Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
做错了事，他感到很 惭愧 。
Zuò cuò le shì, tā gǎndào hěn cánkuì.
Having done wrong, he felt ashamed.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 惭愧
受到这样的表扬，我很 惭愧 。
Shòudào zhèyàng de biǎoyáng, wǒ hěn cánkuì.
I feel unworthy of such praise.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 惭愧
他为自己当年的无知感到 惭愧 。
Tā wèi zìjǐ dāngnián de wúzhī gǎndào cánkuì.
He is ashamed of how ignorant he was back then.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 无知
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Questions about 惭愧
How is 惭愧 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 惭愧 (cánkuì, "Ashamed"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 惭愧 an HSK word?
Yes — 惭愧 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
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The dictionary page for 惭愧 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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