烦忧

煩憂
fányōu
verb #42,149

Meanings

  1. 1 to worry
  2. 2 to fret
  3. 3 to be troubled

Examples

HSK 4
Wèi zhè diǎn xiǎoshì búbì fányōu.
There's no need to fret over such a trifling matter.
HSK 7-9
戴望舒的诗《烦忧》写尽了暗恋的心情。
Dài Wàngshū de shī 《 Fányōu 》 xiě jìn le ànliàn de xīnqíng.
Dai Wangshu's poem 'Anxieties' captures every shade of unrequited love.

Tips

culture
More literary than 烦恼 (worry). 戴望舒 (1905-1950), the modernist poet, has a famous palindromic poem called 《烦忧》 in which the second stanza is the first stanza read backwards line by line.

Stroke Order

烦 fán
忧 yōu