黍離
shǔ​lí

grief for one's fallen country

  • created sense approved 黍离/黍離 · shǔ​lí · grief for one's fallen country — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    黍离 / 黍離

    shǔ​lí

    grief for one's fallen country

    sorrow over the ruin of a former capital or a collapsed dynasty, derived from a classic poem depicting millet growing where a palace once stood

    黍 (literal) → 黍 · shǔ · millet 离 (literal) → 离/離 · lí · to suffer

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

    created sense