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lit. happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy (idiom) / fig. emotions
HSK 7-9
to entreat / to implore / to plead
HSK 7-9
to bring tribute as sign of submission (idiom); to submit
to grieve; to mourn / deep sorrow; grief
to grieve over sb's death / to lament sb's death / mourning
(esp. of poetry, music) melancholy; sad and moving
to entreat piteously / to implore
grief / resentment / aggrieved / plaintive
the Lamentations of Jeremiah
grieved / sorrowful
HSK 7-9
deeply felt but not mawkish (idiom)
to be respected in life and lamented in death (idiom)
to wail
an army burning with righteous indignation is bound to win (idiom)
to beg piteously / to supplicate
(of animals, the wind etc) to make a mournful sound / whine; moan; wail
dirge / lament
son orphaned of his mother
Molière (1622-1673), French playwright and actor, master of comedy
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *哀* | 哀* | *哀
Ai (c. 2000 BC), sixth of legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農|神农 Farmer God, also known as Li 釐|厘
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *哀* | 哀* | *哀
(bound form) sorrow; grief; pity / (bound form) to grieve for; to pity; to lament; to condole
I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas)
sorrow / grief
(of poetry etc) plaintive and beautiful; poignant
alas / all is lost
grief; distress; bereavement / grieved; heartbroken; dejected
lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims / starving people fill the land
funeral music / plaint / dirge
mournful song / dirge / elegy
to observe a moment of silence in tribute
to feel compassion for; to pity
grief-stricken thoughts / mourning
to pay respects to the dead / to mark sb's passing
to be deeply grieved
restrain your grief, accept fate (condolence phrase)
to take pity on / to feel sorry for
joint name for the Han dynasty emperors Aidi (reigned 7-1 BC) and Pingdi (reigned 1 BC - 6 AD)
to howl in grief / anguished wailing / same as 哀號|哀号
sorrow; sadness / distressed; sorrowful
to cry piteously / anguished wailing / same as 哀嚎
Emperor Aidi of Tang, reign name of twenty-first and last Tang emperor Li Zhu 李祝 (892-908), reigned 904-907
Abdominal Lament / acupuncture point SP 16
(loanword) (old) ultimatum
nothing sadder than a withered heart (idiom attributed to Confucius by Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子) / 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
to take pity on / to feel sorry for
begging for pity and asking for help (idiom)
to sigh / to lament / to bewail
(idiom) (literary) to become emaciated due to grief (usu. due to the death of a parent)
desolate / mournful
obituary (archaic term)
to persuade by all possible means; to implore
to weep in sorrow
bereavement
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
miserably
to express grief / to mourn
(literary) orphan
(literary) reverence accorded to sb who has died; posthumous recognition
variant of 哀豔|哀艳
variant of 哀辭|哀辞


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