可怜 kělián HSK5 pitiful Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 可怜 可憐 kělián pitiful adjective deserving of sympathy or pity; poor; wretched 看到她这么可怜让我心都碎了。 kàn dào tā zhème kělián ràng wǒ xīn dōu suì le. It just broke my heart to see her so miserable. to pity verb to have pity on someone; to show mercy or compassion toward someone 可怜可怜她吧。 kělián kělián tā ba. Have pity on her. meager extremely small in amount or poor in quality; not worth mentioning lovely (literary) lovely; charming; deserving of affection, seen in the idiom 楚楚可怜 chǔchǔkělián admirable (literary) enviable; admirable; worthy of praise lamentable (literary) lamentable; what a pity; used to express regret over a situation Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 102.2 per million appears in 34% of films Written text 42.0 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 4 HSK 3.0 Level 5 Cross-References See 楚楚可怜 chǔchǔkěliánReferenced by 怜 lián Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
可怜 可憐 kělián pitiful adjective deserving of sympathy or pity; poor; wretched 看到她这么可怜让我心都碎了。 kàn dào tā zhème kělián ràng wǒ xīn dōu suì le. It just broke my heart to see her so miserable. to pity verb to have pity on someone; to show mercy or compassion toward someone 可怜可怜她吧。 kělián kělián tā ba. Have pity on her. meager extremely small in amount or poor in quality; not worth mentioning lovely (literary) lovely; charming; deserving of affection, seen in the idiom 楚楚可怜 chǔchǔkělián admirable (literary) enviable; admirable; worthy of praise lamentable (literary) lamentable; what a pity; used to express regret over a situation Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 102.2 per million appears in 34% of films Written text 42.0 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 4 HSK 3.0 Level 5 Cross-References See 楚楚可怜 chǔchǔkěliánReferenced by 怜 lián Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
