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deeply felt but not mawkish (idiom)
to entreat / to implore / to plead
HSK 7-9
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
an army burning with righteous indignation is bound to win (idiom)
grief / resentment / aggrieved / plaintive
lit. happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy (idiom) / fig. emotions
HSK 7-9
the Lamentations of Jeremiah
funeral music / plaint / dirge
(of animals, the wind etc) to make a mournful sound / whine; moan; wail
to wail
to beg piteously / to supplicate
to cry piteously / anguished wailing / same as 哀嚎
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
restrain your grief, accept fate (condolence phrase)
lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims / starving people fill the land
to persuade by all possible means; to implore
grief; distress; bereavement / grieved; heartbroken; dejected
mournful song / dirge / elegy
to pay respects to the dead / to mark sb's passing
to observe a moment of silence in tribute
to sigh / to lament / to bewail
to be respected in life and lamented in death (idiom)
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
grief-stricken thoughts / mourning
begging for pity and asking for help (idiom)
joint name for the Han dynasty emperors Aidi (reigned 7-1 BC) and Pingdi (reigned 1 BC - 6 AD)
grieved / sorrowful
HSK 7-9
to howl in grief / anguished wailing / same as 哀號|哀号
sorrow; sadness / distressed; sorrowful
desolate / mournful
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
to take pity on / to feel sorry for
to take pity on / to feel sorry for
ultimatum (loanword)
dirge / lament
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
to be deeply grieved
alas / all is lost
to bring tribute as sign of submission (idiom); to submit
to weep in sorrow
bereavement
(literary) reverence accorded to sb who has died; posthumous recognition
miserably
(idiom) (literary) to become emaciated due to grief (usu. due to the death of a parent)
to express grief / to mourn
(literary) orphan
to feel compassion for; to pity
obituary (archaic term)
(of poetry etc) plaintive and beautiful; poignant
variant of 哀辭|哀辞
variant of 哀豔|哀艳


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