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sad; sorrowful
HSK 5
miserable / tragic
HSK 6
tragedy / CL: 齣|出
HSK 5
tragic
sad news; bad news
joys and sorrows / partings and reunions / the vicissitudes of life
HSK 7-9
lamentable
HSK 7-9
not to become attached to material things, not to pity oneself
sad / sorrowful (literary)
pessimistic
HSK 7-9
grief and indignation
lit. if the rabbit dies, the fox grieves (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress
(Internet slang) miserable / pathetic / the pits
tragedy of the commons (economics)
Xu Beihong (1895-1953), famous European-trained painter and influential art teacher
grieved / sorrowful
HSK 7-9
mournful
if you are lazy in your prime, you'll be sorry in your old age
Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果|维克多·雨果
to utter a mournful cry / wail; groan
grieved / sorrowful
HSK 7-9
extreme joy turns to sorrow (idiom); Don't celebrate too soon, things could still go wrong!
to wail loudly and mournfully (idiom)
to bewail / to sigh mournfully / to lament
to bewail / to sigh mournfully / to lament
phony mercy / sham benevolence / crocodile tears
melancholy
mercy
sorrowful / dismal
to bemoan the state of the universe and pity the fate of mankind
mixed feelings of grief and joy
bitter and sad
tragicomedy
pitiable / sorrowful
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *悲* | 悲* | *悲
sad / sadness / sorrow / grief
grieved / sorrowful
to sing instead of weep (idiom)
to wail with grief / plaintive cry
mournful
to take pity on sb / compassionate
solemn and stirring / moving and tragic
lamentations fill the roads (idiom); severe suffering all around
to sing with solemn fervor / sad, stirring song; elegy; dirge; threnody
mournful
to weep with grief
grieved / miserable
sorrowful / grieved
mercy as the guiding principle (idiom); the Buddhist teaching that nothing is valid except compassion
unable to control one's grief (idiom); overwrought / overcome with sorrow / heartbroken
to mourn / to grieve over sb's death
the Great Compassion Mantra
to choke with grief
forlorn; miserable
tragic flaw (Aristotle's hamartia)
to try hard to suppress one's grief (idiom)
sorrow / tragic
to turn grief into happiness (idiom)
vain regrets of old age (idiom)


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