(bound form) sorrow / grief / pity / (bound form) to grieve for / to pity / to lament / to condole
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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[]
to grieve over sb's death / to lament sb's death / mourning
grieved / sorrowful
to restrain one's grief (used in expressions of condolence, e.g. 請節哀|请节哀[] and 節哀順變|节哀顺变[])
grief / distress / bereavement / grieved / heartbroken / dejected
to entreat / to implore / to plead
to wail / to cry piteously (variant of 哀嚎[])
to wail / to cry piteously / (of a wild animal) to howl
grief-stricken thoughts / mourning
to observe a moment of silence in tribute
to express grief / to mourn
(lit.) happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy (idiom) / (fig.) emotions
an army burning with righteous indignation is bound to win (idiom)
to persuade by all possible means / to implore
to beg piteously / to supplicate
to bring tribute as sign of submission (idiom) / to submit
to weep in sorrow
obituary (archaic term)
to sigh / to lament / to bewail
bereavement
(esp. of poetry, music) melancholy / sad and moving
son orphaned of his mother
I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas)
grief / resentment / aggrieved / plaintive
sorrow / sadness / distressed / sorrowful
to be deeply grieved
to feel compassion for / to pity
to take pity on / to feel sorry for
sorrow / grief
funeral music / plaint / dirge
mournful song / dirge / elegy
see 哀毀骨立|哀毁骨立[]
(idiom) to become emaciated from grief, esp. while mourning the death of a parent
to wail
to grieve / to mourn / deep sorrow / grief
(loanword) (old) ultimatum
to take pity on / to feel sorry for
deeply felt but not mawkish (idiom)
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
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