| 惻 | |||
| feel anguish, feel compassion | |||
| Radical | 心忄𢖩 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 9 | Total Strokes | 12 |
| Mandarin reading | cè | Cantonese reading | caak1 cak1 |
| Japanese on reading | soku shoku | Japanese kun reading | itamu |
| Korean reading | chuk | Vietnamese reading | |
| Simplified Variant(s) | 恻 | ||
| 惻 | [ cè ] sorrowful |
| 惻怛之心 | [ cè dá zhī xīn ] see 惻隱之心|恻隐之心[ce4 yin3 zhi1 xin1] |
| 惻隱 | [ cè yǐn ] compassion, empathetic |
| 惻隱之心 | [ cè yǐn zhī xīn ] compassion |
| ⇒ 悲惻 | [ beī cè ] grieved, sorrowful |
| ⇒ 悽惻 | [ qī cè ] heartbroken, sorrowful |
| ⇒ 纏綿悱惻 | [ chán mián feǐ cè ] (of a person) sad beyond words (idiom), (of music, literature etc) poignant, very sentimental |