(lián) - pity, sympathise (bound) in Mandarin
liánTraditional: 怜
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Translation
pity, sympathise (bound)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character combining the heart radical 忄(xīn) with 令 (lìng) as the phonetic, the heart giving the sense of feeling pity or sympathy.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 忄 (heart radical) + 令 (lìng, phonetic)
Stroke order
怜
Examples
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That puppy is pitiful.
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He is pitiful.
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I really pity him.
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I feel great pity for this child.
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He pities that little cat.
怜 (lián) means to pity, the second half of 可怜 (kělián, pitiful) and 怜悯 (liánmǐn, pity).
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 怜.
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