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


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