huī​xīn HSK7

to lose heart

灰心 huī​xīn
to lose heart verb
to be discouraged; to lose heart; to become disheartened or lose confidence in a cause

Failure did not make him feel discouraged.

to have a mind like cold ashes
(literary) to have an indifferent or quietist state of mind, unmoved by external desires or emotions; often based on the Zhuangzi concept of the mind being like cold ashes and the body like dry wood

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.91 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.80 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7

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