囊中羞涩 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 囊中羞澀 nángzhōngxiūsè ㄋㄤˊ ㄓㄨㄥ ㄒㄧㄡ ㄙㄜˋ 男 女 to be embarrassingly short of money Character by character 囊(náng)sack 中(zhōng)middle 羞(xiū)shy 涩(sè)astringent Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0