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表層形
恥じゅかし
ハジュカシ
形容詞

恥じゅかし (ハジュカシ)

Hajukashi · はじゅかし — embarrassing, embarrassed, ashamed, humiliated, shy; disgraceful, shameful

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恥じゅかし in rōmaji: hajukashi.

形容詞 一般 * *
📝 恥ずかしい 🔤 形容詞 📐 語幹-一般
Updated: 2026年10月5日
📖 Grammar Information
表層形 (Surface)
恥じゅかし
見出し語 (Lemma)
恥ずかしい
読み (Reading)
ハジュカシ
品詞 (POS)
形容詞・一般・*・*
活用型 (Conj. Type)
形容詞
活用形 (Conj. Form)
語幹-一般
表記 (Orthography)
恥じゅかし
読み・基本形
ハジュカシー
表記・基本形
恥じゅかしい
見出し語の読み
ハズカシイ
How it's used

Used in casual speech to describe feeling embarrassed or ashamed, often in social situations. More formal than 恥ずかしい (hazukashii).

彼は恥じゅかしそうに笑った。
Kare wa hajukashi-sō ni waratta.
He laughed shyly.

恥じゅかしけど、本当のことを言うよ。
Hajukashi kedo, hontō no koto o iu yo.
It's embarrassing, but I'll tell the truth.

⚖️ Commonly confused with 恥ずかしい (hazukashii), which is more standard; 恥じゅかし is a nonstandard variant.

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ハジュカシ
Lemma: 恥ずかしい
形容詞一般**
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⚡ 形容詞 (I-adjective) Inflections
丁寧形 (Polite)
恥ずかしいです
否定形 (Negative)
恥ずかしくない
過去形 (Past)
恥ずかしかった
て形 (Te-form)
恥ずかしくて
副詞形 (Adverbial)
恥ずかしく
仮定形 (Conditional)
恥ずかしければ
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