HSK 6 · Emotions

丢人 diūrén “to lose face” in Chinese

Traditional 丟人

What 丢人 means

  1. to lose face
  2. embarrassing

How to say 丢人

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale丢diū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale人rén2nd tone, rising

丢人 in a sentence

  1. 多丢人啊！

    Duō diūrén a!

    How shameful!

    Sentence #791626 from Tatoeba

  2. 真丢人！

    Zhēn diūrén!

    How embarrassing!

    Sentence #4444892 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 丢人 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 丢 (diū) with each of its parts in a different colour
丢diūto lose
  • 王king · wáng
  • 厶private · sī
The character 人 (rén) drawn as one shape
人rénperson; people

人 is a single shape of 2 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidA person walking, seen from the side: two legs.

How to write 丢人

丢 6 strokes · 人 2 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

丢人 (diūrén) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 丢人 (diūrén). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 丢人

Words with 丢

丢diū · to lose丢三落四diūsānlàsì · forgetful

Words with 人

人rén · person家人jiārén · family member男人nánrén · man女人nǚrén · woman别人biéren · other people客人kèrén · guest有人yǒurén · someone人们rénmen · people大人dàren · adult老人lǎorén · old person

More words: Emotions & Attitudes

崇敬chóngjìng · to revere胆怯dǎnqiè · timid惦记diànjì · to keep thinking about敌视díshì · to be hostile to恩怨ēnyuàn · old grudges反感fǎngǎn · to dislike废寝忘食fèiqǐnwàngshí · so absorbed one forgets to eat and sleep愤怒fènnù · anger

FAQs

丢人 (diūrén) means “to lose face” or “embarrassing”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it diūrén: diū with a 1st tone, then rén with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 丢人 is written 丟人. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type diuren with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 丢人 from the suggestions. Typing diuren into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
丢人 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.