yōu​xīn​rú​fén

burning with anxiety

  • created sense approved 忧心如焚/憂心如焚 · yōu​xīn​rú​fén · burning with anxiety — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    忧心如焚 / 憂心如焚

    yōu​xīn​rú​fén

    burning with anxiety

    to be extremely worried or distressed, as if one's heart were on fire

    忧心 (literal) → 忧心/憂心 · yōu​xīn · troubled heart 如 (literal) → 如 · rú · to be like 焚 (literal) → 焚 · fén · to burn

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense