怜
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to pity
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 心 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 怜
- Common rank
- #2,323
- Unicode
- U+601C
Sound it out + + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
pity · Heisig RSH #2439
state of mind + 令 orders
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 怜
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 可怜巴巴 | pathetic; pitiful | |
| 同病相怜 | fellow sufferers empathize with each other (idiom); misery loves company | |
| 由怜生爱 | to develop love for sb out of pity for them | |
| 自艾自怜 | (idiom) to feel sorry for oneself | |
| 可怜见 | (coll.) pitiable; to have pity on sb | |
| 可怜虫 | pitiful creature; wretch | |
| 顾影自怜 | lit. looking at one's shadow and feeling sorry for oneself (idiom); fig. alone and dejecte… | |
| 可怜 | pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on | |
| 惜香怜玉 | see 憐香惜玉|怜香惜玉[lian2 xiang1 xi1 yu4] | |
| 怜香惜玉 | to have tender, protective feelings for the fairer sex (idiom) | |
| 爱怜 | to show tenderness; to coo over; affection | |
| 怜爱 | to have tender affection for; to love tenderly; to pamper sb | |
| 楚楚可怜 | (idiom) pitiable; sweet, innocent and vulnerable | |
| 摇尾乞怜 | lit. to behave like a dog wagging its tail, seeking its master's affection (idiom); fig. t… | |
| 乞哀告怜 | begging for pity and asking for help (idiom) | |
| 哀怜 | to feel compassion for; to pity | |
| 怜惜 | to take pity on; to feel tenderness toward | |
| 怜恤 | to take pity; to show compassion | |
| 乞怜 | to beg for pity | |
| 可怜兮兮 | miserable; wretched |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 令 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 令 sound part | command, decree, order; magistrate; to allow, to cause | |
| 领 | neck, collar; lead, guide | |
| 冷 | cold, cool; lonely | |
| 零 | zero; fragment, fraction | |
| 岭 | mountain ridge, mountain peak | |
| 邻 | neighbor; neighborhood | |
| 龄 | age; years | |
| 铃 | small bell | |
| 伶 | clever; lonely, solitary | |
| 玲 | the tinkling of jewelry | |
| 羚 | a species of antelope | |
| 鸰 | lark, wagtail; Motacilla species (various) | |
| 苓 | fungus, tuber; licorice | |
| 蛉 | dragonfly, sandfly; Libellulidae | |
| 呤 | purine | |
| 囹 | prison, enclosure | |
| 拎 | to lift, to haul, to take | |
| 翎 | plume, tail feathers | |
| 聆 | to hear, to listen |