| 恻 | |||
| feel anguish, feel compassion | |||
| Radical | 心忄𢖩 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 6 | Total Strokes | 9 |
| Mandarin reading | cè | Cantonese reading | cak1 |
| Japanese on reading | Japanese kun reading | ||
| Korean reading | Vietnamese reading | ||
| Traditional Variant(s) | 惻 | feel anguish, feel compassion | |
| 恻 | [ cè ] sorrowful |
| 恻怛之心 | [ cè dá zhī xīn ] see 惻隱之心|恻隐之心[ce4 yin3 zhi1 xin1] |
| 恻隐 | [ cè yǐn ] compassion, empathetic |
| 恻隐之心 | [ cè yǐn zhī xīn ] compassion |
| ⇒ 悲恻 | [ beī cè ] grieved, sorrowful |
| ⇒ 凄恻 | [ qī cè ] heartbroken, sorrowful |
| ⇒ 缠绵悱恻 | [ chán mián feǐ cè ] (of a person) sad beyond words (idiom), (of music, literature etc) poignant, very sentimental |