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to entreat / to implore / to plead
HSK 7-9
(of animals, the wind etc) to make a mournful sound / whine; moan; wail
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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
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(bound form) sorrow; grief; pity / (bound form) to grieve for; to pity; to lament; to condole
grief; distress; bereavement / grieved; heartbroken; dejected
mournful song / dirge / elegy
grief / resentment / aggrieved / plaintive
funeral music / plaint / dirge
grief-stricken thoughts / mourning
sorrow; sadness / distressed; sorrowful
to sigh / to lament / to bewail
to grieve over sb's death / to lament sb's death / mourning
son orphaned of his mother
to grieve; to mourn / deep sorrow; grief
to howl in grief / anguished wailing / same as 哀號|哀号
to cry piteously / anguished wailing / same as 哀嚎
lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims / starving people fill the land
(esp. of poetry, music) melancholy; sad and moving
deeply felt but not mawkish (idiom)
an army burning with righteous indignation is bound to win (idiom)
to feel compassion for; to pity
(literary) reverence accorded to sb who has died; posthumous recognition
(of poetry etc) plaintive and beautiful; poignant
(idiom) (literary) to become emaciated due to grief (usu. due to the death of a parent)
to be deeply grieved
dirge / lament
to wail
to beg piteously / to supplicate
sorrow / grief
to take pity on / to feel sorry for
to weep in sorrow
variant of 哀豔|哀艳
I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas)
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
obituary (archaic term)
to persuade by all possible means; to implore
to bring tribute as sign of submission (idiom); to submit
bereavement
joint name for the Han dynasty emperors Aidi (reigned 7-1 BC) and Pingdi (reigned 1 BC - 6 AD)
to take pity on / to feel sorry for
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
ultimatum (loanword)
variant of 哀辭|哀辞


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