愁
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to worry about
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 心 +9
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 愁
- Common rank
- #2,022
- Unicode
- U+6101
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 愁
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 多愁多病 | much sorrows and illness (idiom); melancholy and weakly | |
| 面带愁容 | with a sad air; looking melancholy; with a worried look | |
| 虱子多了不痒，债多了不愁 | (lit.) when covered with lice, one doesn't feel the itching anymore, and when up to one's … | |
| 多愁善感 | (idiom) emotionally sensitive and prone to melancholy | |
| 怎一个愁字了得 | (last line of the poem 聲聲慢|声声慢[Sheng1 sheng1 Man4] by Song poet Li Qingzhao 李清照[Li3 Qing1 … | |
| 皇帝女儿不愁嫁 | lit. the emperor's daughter does not worry about whether she will be able to marry (idiom)… | |
| 债多不愁 | (lit.) when up to one's ears in debt, one ceases to worry about it (idiom); (fig.) to be p… | |
| 愁眉不展 | with a worried frown | |
| 愁肠百结 | hundred knots of worry in one's intestines (idiom); weighed down with anxiety | |
| 愁眉苦脸 | to look anxious (idiom); to look miserable | |
| 新愁旧恨 | new worries added to old hatred (idiom); afflicted by problems old and new | |
| 旧愁新恨 | old worries with new hatred added (idiom); afflicted by problems old and new | |
| 发愁 | to worry; to fret; to be anxious; to become sad | |
| 绿惨红愁 | (of women) grieved appearance (idiom); sorrowful mien | |
| 解愁 | to relieve melancholy | |
| 消愁解闷 | lit. to eliminate worry and dispel melancholy (idiom); diversion from boredom; to dispel d… | |
| 愁苦 | anxiety; distress | |
| 离愁 | parting sorrow; pain of separation | |
| 乡愁 | homesickness; nostalgia | |
| 犯愁 | to worry; to be anxious |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 秋 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 秋 sound part | autumn, fall; year | |
| 揪 | to pinch, to grasp | |
| 瞅 | to see, to look at, to gaze at | |
| 锹 | shovel | |
| 啾 | the wailing of a child | |
| 楸 | Mallotus japonicus | |
| 鳅 | loach | |
| 鹙 | waterfowl; Garrulus glandarius | |
| 愀 | anxious; blushing; to change one's countenance | |
| 湫 | marsh, swamp, small pond | |
| 鬏 | coiffure, topknot |