憐 (lián)
to pity
How 憐 is written
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 忄 — heart
- Traditional
- 憐
- Simplified
- 怜
Components
- 忄 heart
- 米 rice
- 舛 opposite
Common words using 憐
- 可憐 kělián
- pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on
- 憐憫 liánmǐn
- to take pity on; pity; mercy
- 乞憐 qǐlián
- to beg for pity
- 可憐蟲 kěliánchóng
- pitiful creature; wretch
- 哀憐 āilián
- to feel compassion for; to pity on; to feel sorry for
- 愛憐 àilián
- to show tenderness; to coo over; affection
- 憐惜 liánxī
- to take pity on; to feel tenderness toward
- 憐愛 liánài
- to have tender affection for; to love tenderly; to pamper sb
- 憐香惜玉 liánxiāngxīyù
- to be kind to women
- 顧影自憐 gùyǐngzìlián
- lit. looking at one's shadow and feeling sorry for oneself (idiom); fig. alone and dejected
憐 in a sentence
那隻流浪狗看起來好可憐。
Nà zhī liúlànggǒu kànqǐlái hǎo kělián.
“That stray dog looks so pitiful.”
How common is 憐?
憐 is the 1,597th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 95.2% of all running text.
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