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misfortune / adversity / unfortunate / sad / unfortunately / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
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  *讓* | 讓* | *讓
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
to feel sad / to feel unwell / (of life) to be difficult
HSK 2
lit. you can sing or you can cry (idiom); fig. deeply moving / happy and sad / inspiring and tragic
HSK 7-9
sad; sorrowful
HSK 5
sad / emotional / sentimental / pathos
HSK 7-9
to feel even more (lonely etc); to be extremely (sad, delighted etc)
sad / downhearted / sentimental / pathos / melancholy
to worry / to fret / to be anxious / to become sad
HSK 7-9
pungent (taste) / bitter / fig. sad / miserable
HSK 7-9
sorrowful farewell / sad goodbye
(esp. of poetry, music) melancholy; sad and moving
sad / sorrowful (literary)
to feel sad
HSK 7-9
melancholy / moving and sad / sweet and piteous
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  *悄* | 悄* | *悄
quiet / sad
news of sb's death; sad news
bitter and sad
with only body and shadow to comfort each other (idiom) / extremely sad and lonely
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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
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  *怊* | 怊* | *怊
(literary) sad; sorrowful; disappointed; frustrated
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  *愴* | 愴* | *愴
mournful / sad / grieved / sorry
poignant / sad and beautiful
lamentable / sad(ly)
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  *悴* | 悴* | *悴
haggard / sad / downcast / distressed
to sing with solemn fervor / sad, stirring song; elegy; dirge; threnody
(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?
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  *淒* | 淒* | *淒
intense cold / frigid / dismal / grim / bleak / sad / mournful
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  *衋* | 衋* | *衋
sad (old)
sad feeling at separation (idiom)
dim / sad
sorrow; sadness / distressed; sorrowful
sad; wretched; miserable
(sad) farewell song
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  *凄* | 凄* | *凄
intense cold / frigid / dismal / grim / bleak / sad / mournful / also written 淒|凄
(of a person) sad beyond words (idiom) / (of music, literature etc) poignant / very sentimental
autumnal 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
sad news; bad news
overwhelming sadness (idiom); sorrow at parting
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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
with a sad air / looking melancholy / with a worried look
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  *悁* | 悁* | *悁
angry / sad
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  *悽* | 悽* | *悽
variant of 淒|凄 / sad / mournful


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