心伤

心傷

xīnshāng

adjective

Meanings

1 heartbroken; grief-stricken
2 to be hurt at heart

Characters

Examples

听到这个消息,她心伤不已。

Tīngdào zhè ge xiāoxi, tā xīnshāng bùyǐ.

On hearing the news, she was inconsolably heartbroken.

他强忍心伤继续工作。

Tā qiáng rěn xīnshāng jìxù gōngzuò.

He bore his grief and kept working.

Tips

register

Literary / written register; common in song lyrics, poetry, and novels but rarely in casual speech, where 伤心 ('sad / heartbroken', verb-object word order) is the everyday choice. Same characters, reversed order — 伤心 is colloquial, 心伤 is poetic.

Stroke Order

心 xīn

伤 shāng