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  *服* | 服* | *服
clothes / dress / garment / to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc) / to obey / to be convinced (by an argument) / to convince / to admire / to acclimatize / to take (medicine) / mourning clothes / to wear mourning clothes
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to wear mourning clothes / to be in mourning / also written 披麻帶孝|披麻带孝
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  *忧* | 忧* | *忧
to worry / to concern oneself with / worried / anxiety / sorrow / (literary) to observe mourning
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  *孝* | 孝* | *孝
filial piety or obedience / mourning apparel
mourning hall / funeral hall
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  *甸* | 甸* | *甸
suburbs or outskirts / one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic China / official in charge of fields (old)
to grieve over sb's death / to lament sb's death / mourning
to observe mourning for one's parents
mourning clothes
to wear mourning garb / to be in mourning
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  *丧* | 丧* | *丧
mourning / funeral / (old) corpse
mourning garment
(literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent
to keep watch beside a coffin / to observe a period of mourning
mourning garment
mourning dress
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  *缞* | 缞* | *缞
mourning garments of coarse hemp
white silk mourning dress
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  *禫* | 禫* | *禫
sacrifice at the end of mourning
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  *絻* | 絻* | *絻
(old) mourning apparel
in mourning
sobbing tone / sob / dirge / opera tune portraying mourning
to open a law court / to set up a mourning hall
to observe mourning for one's parents
at the end of the mourning period / to fulfill one's filial duties of mourning
to go into mourning for one's parents
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
mourning clothes (old)
to expel spirits / (old) to end the period of mourning
mourning staff draped in white, held at a funeral to show filial piety
(literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent
grief-stricken thoughts / mourning
mourning hall / a hall for a birthday celebration
lit. as if in mourning for one's parents (idiom) / fig. (often pejorative) inconsolable; distraught
bed of straw and pillow of clay (idiom) / the correct etiquette for a filial son during the mourning period
to observe the ritual mourning
to wear mourning clothes / to be in mourning / also written 披麻戴孝
to have completed the mourning period (traditional) / to have served one's time
to use clay for a pillow (during mourning period)
at the end of the mourning period / to fulfill one's filial duties of mourning
to get through the mourning period
a form of Yuefu 樂府|乐府 mourning song or elegy / lit. to visit a tomb on Mt Mang


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