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misfortune / adversity / unfortunate / sad / unfortunately / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
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  *让* | 让* | *让
to yield / to permit / to let sb do sth / to have sb do sth / to make sb (feel sad etc) / by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like )
HSK 2
sad; sorrowful
HSK 5
to feel sad / to feel unwell / (of life) to be difficult
HSK 2
sad / emotional / sentimental / pathos
HSK 7-9
to worry / to fret / to be anxious / to become sad
HSK 7-9
lit. you can sing or you can cry (idiom); fig. deeply moving / happy and sad / inspiring and tragic
HSK 7-9
sad feeling at separation (idiom)
sad news; bad news
sad / sorrowful (literary)
to feel even more (lonely etc); to be extremely (sad, delighted etc)
pungent (taste) / bitter / fig. sad / miserable
HSK 7-9
with a sad air / looking melancholy / with a worried look
(esp. of poetry, music) melancholy; sad and moving
to feel sad
HSK 7-9
melancholy / moving and sad / sweet and piteous
sad; wretched; miserable
poignant / sad and beautiful
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  *悄* | 悄* | *悄
quiet / sad
news of sb's death; sad news
sad / downhearted / sentimental / pathos / melancholy
bitter and sad
with only body and shadow to comfort each other (idiom) / extremely sad and lonely
(of a person) sad beyond words (idiom) / (of music, literature etc) poignant / very sentimental
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  *忡* | 忡* | *忡
grieved / distressed / sad / uneasy
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  *悢* | 悢* | *悢
(literary) sad; melancholy
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  *悲* | 悲* | *悲
sad / sadness / sorrow / grief
(sad) farewell song
lamentable / sad(ly)
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  *怊* | 怊* | *怊
(literary) sad; sorrowful; disappointed; frustrated
(last line of the poem 聲聲慢|声声慢 by Song poet Li Qingzhao 李清照) / how can it be expressed in one word, "sorrow"? / how can words express such sadness?
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
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  *悴* | 悴* | *悴
haggard / sad / downcast / distressed
to sing with solemn fervor / sad, stirring song; elegy; dirge; threnody
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  *怆* | 怆* | *怆
mournful / sad / grieved / sorry
sorrowful farewell / sad goodbye
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  *衋* | 衋* | *衋
sad (old)
dim / sad
autumnal sadness
sorrow; sadness / distressed; sorrowful
overwhelming sadness (idiom); sorrow at parting
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  *凄* | 凄* | *凄
intense cold / frigid / dismal / grim / bleak / sad / mournful / also written 淒|凄
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  *凄* | 凄* | *凄
intense cold / frigid / dismal / grim / bleak / sad / mournful
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  *悕* | 悕* | *悕
(literary) to wish / to hope / sad / sorrowful
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  *慱* | 慱* | *慱
sad
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  *怲* | 怲* | *怲
sad / mournful
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  *懆* | 懆* | *懆
anxious / sad
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  *悁* | 悁* | *悁
angry / sad
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  *凄* | 凄* | *凄
variant of 淒|凄 / sad / mournful


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