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无处话凄凉

無處話淒涼
wúchù huà qīliáng
quotation

Meanings

  1. 1 nowhere to speak my desolation
  2. 2 (of grief) no one, nowhere, to pour out one's bleak sorrow to
  3. 3 no place to speak desolation

Examples

HSK 3
亲人去世后，他常感到无处话凄凉。
Qīnrén qùshì hòu, tā cháng gǎndào wúchù huà qīliáng.
After losing his family member, he often felt there was 'nowhere to speak his desolation.'
HSK 7-9
独居异乡，纵使相逢应不识，无处话凄凉。
Dújū yìxiāng, zòngshǐ xiāngféng yīng bù shí, wúchù huà qīliáng.
Living alone in a foreign land - even if we met we might not know each other, with nowhere to tell my grief.

Tips

history
From 苏轼《江城子·乙卯正月二十日夜记梦》 (Su Shi, Northern Song, 1075), a dream elegy for his deceased wife Wang Fu ten years dead: 十年生死两茫茫，不思量，自难忘。千里孤坟，无处话凄凉 (Ten years, the living and the dead two boundless voids; not thinking of you, yet unable to forget. A thousand li away, your lonely grave - nowhere to speak my desolation). Widely considered the greatest mourning ci in Chinese literature.
usage
话 here is a verb ('to speak of, pour out'), not 'words.' Often paired with the previous line 千里孤坟 when quoted for grief that has no outlet.

Stroke Order

无 wú
处 chǔ
话 huà
凄 qī
凉 liáng