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HSK
mournful; miserable
HSK 7-9
desolate (place)
HSK 7-9
distressed
mournful
mournful (sound)
plaintive / mournful / miserable
melancholy / moving and sad / sweet and piteous
sad; wretched; miserable
cold and desolate
poignant / sad and beautiful
pitiable / sorrowful
dismal / somber / also written 淒暗|凄暗
pained and bewildered
dreary and fuzzy (sight)
cold and dismal
somber; cheerless
bleak; miserable
lit. bleak wind and icy rain (idiom) / fig. hardships; miserable circumstances
desolate / mournful
pitiful; painful; heartrending
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *凄* | 凄* | *凄
intense cold / frigid / dismal / grim / bleak / sad / mournful / also written 淒|凄
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *凄* | 凄* | *凄
intense cold / frigid / dismal / grim / bleak / sad / mournful
(literary) wailing; choking with sobs
dismal / somber
wretched wind and rain
heartbroken / sorrowful
distressed and terrified / distraught (literary)
doleful / piteous / also written 淒婉|凄婉
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *凄* | 凄* | *凄
variant of 淒|凄 / sad / mournful


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