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(idiom) to drown one's sorrows
to worry / to fret / to be anxious / to become sad
HSK 7-9
to look anxious (idiom) / to look miserable
HSK 7-9
with a sad air / looking melancholy / with a worried look
lit. when up to one's ears in debt, one ceases to worry about it (idiom) / fig. to be past worrying (about sth)
to be worried
HSK 7-9
lit. when covered with lice, one doesn't feel the itching anymore, and when up to one's ears in debt, one ceases to worry about it (saying) / fig. to be past worrying (about sth)
homesickness / nostalgia
melancholy
lit. to eliminate worry and dispel melancholy (idiom); diversion from boredom / to dispel depression or melancholy / to relieve stress / a relaxing pass-time
much sorrows and illness (idiom); melancholy and weakly
with a worried frown
depressed / gloomy
anxiety / distress
old worries with new hatred added (idiom); afflicted by problems old and new
(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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  *愁* | 愁* | *愁
to worry about
HSK 5
(idiom) emotionally sensitive and prone to melancholy
sorrow; sadness / distressed; sorrowful
new worries added to old hatred (idiom); afflicted by problems old and new
to relieve melancholy
anxiety / worries
(of women) grieved appearance (idiom) / sorrowful mien
to worry / to be anxious
HSK 7-9
lit. the emperor's daughter does not worry about whether she will be able to marry (idiom) / fig. highly sought after
melancholy
impoverished and dejected; wretched and penniless
hundred knots of worry in one's intestines (idiom); weighed down with anxiety
destitute / troubled / penniless and full of care
parting sorrow / pain of separation


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