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怆

愴
chuàng
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 sorrowful; grieved; mournful

Examples

HSK 7-9
想起往事，他心中悲怆。
Xiǎngqǐ wǎngshì, tā xīnzhōng bēichuàng.
Thinking of the past, he was filled with sorrow.
HSK 7-9
念天地之悠悠，独怆然而涕下。
Niàn tiāndì zhī yōuyōu, dú chuàng rán ér tìxià.
Looking far at the empty land, he shed sorrowful tears alone.

Tips

history
Best known from Chen Zi'ang's line 独怆然而涕下 ('alone, grieving, my tears fall'). Modern use is mostly limited to the literary compounds 悲怆 and 凄怆.

Components

radical
忄 xīn
heart (left-side radical)
The upright heart radical 忄, the left-side form of 心. It marks 怆 as an emotion word, grief, alongside other feeling characters like 惆 and 愠.
phonetic
仓 cāng
storehouse (phonetic)
The right side 仓 'granary' supplies the sound (cāng drifting to chuàng). The same phonetic appears in 创 and 沧, which share the c-/ch- sound family.

Stroke Order

怆 chuàng