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Hanzi Character Search: 哀

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哀
sad, mournful, pitiful; pity
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 6 Total Strokes 9
Mandarin reading Cantonese reading oi1
Japanese on reading ai Japanese kun reading aware awaremu kanashii
Korean reading ay Vietnamese reading ai

CEDICT Entries:

   [ shāng ]    grief, distress, bereavement, grieved, heartbroken, dejected
   [ shāng de ]    pathetically
   [ bīng shèng ]    an army burning with righteous indignation is bound to win (idiom)
   [ quàn ]    to persuade by all possible means, to implore
   [ gaò bīn ]    to bring tribute as sign of submission (idiom); to submit
齿   [ qiè chǐ ]    weeping and gnashing one's teeth (idiom)
   [ ]    obituary (archaic term)
   [ tàn ]    to sigh, to lament, to bewail
   [ tòng ]    to be deeply grieved
   [ lián ]    to feel compassion for, to pity on, to feel sorry for
   [ mǐn ]    to take pity on, to feel sorry for
   [ róng ]    funeral pomp
   [ yuè ]    funeral music, plaint, dirge
   [ jiāng nán ]    Lament for the South, long poem in Fu style by Yu Xin 庾信 mourning the passing of Liang of the Southern dynasties 南朝梁朝
   [ meǐ dūn shū ]    ultimatum (loanword)
   [ ér shāng ]    deeply felt but not mawkish (idiom)
   [ yàn ]    plaintive and beautiful, melancholy but gorgeous
   [ xīn ]    nothing sadder than a withered heart (idiom attributed to Confucius by Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]), no greater sorrow than a heart that never rejoices, the worst sorrow is not as bad as an uncaring heart, nothing is more wretched than apathy
   [ haó ]    to cry piteously, anguished wailing, same as 哀嚎[ai1 hao2]
   [ ]    variant of 哀辭|哀辞[ai1 ci2]
   [ ]    dirge, lament
   [ míng ]    (of animals, the wind etc) to make a mournful sound, whine, moan, wail
鸿   [ hóng biàn ]    lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims, starving people fill the land
⇒    [ gaò lián ]    begging for pity and asking for help (idiom)
⇒    [ ]    four types of human emotions, namely: happiness 歡喜|欢喜[huan1 xi3], anger 憤怒|愤怒[fen4 nu4], sorrow 悲哀[bei1 ai1] and joy 快樂|快乐[kuai4 le4]
⇒    [ zaī ]    alas, all is lost
⇒    [ ]    desolate, mournful
⇒    [ shēng róng ]    to be respected in life and lamented in death (idiom)
⇒    [ jié shùn biàn ]    restrain your grief, accept fate (condolence phrase)
⇒    [ zhì ]    to pay respects to the dead, to mark sb's passing

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