adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 anxious and grieved; troubled with longing (classical)

Examples

Nì zài gǔwén lǐ xíngróng yōushāng bùān de xīnqíng.
In old texts the character 'ni' describes an anxious, sorrowing heart.

Tips

history
is not used in modern Chinese. It is a classical word for anxious, hungry-feeling grief, best known from the 《诗经》 line comparing heartache to morning hunger. The heart radical sits at the bottom and gives the meaning; on top supplies the sound.
register
Archaic and literary. You will meet only in classical poetry and etymology notes; modern speech uses 忧伤 or 焦虑 instead.

Components

radical
xīn
heart; feeling
(heart) sits at the foot of as the indexing radical, marking it as an emotion: a gnawing, anxious sorrow.
phonetic
shū
phonetic element
sits on top and supplies the sound for , with the reading drifting strongly from its source; here it carries pronunciation, not meaning.

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