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无处话凄凉

無處話淒涼
wúchùhuàqīliáng
phrase

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 (lit.) no place to speak desolation

Examples

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.'
独居异乡，纵使相逢应不识，无处话凄凉。
Dújū yìxiāng, zòngshǐ xiāngféng yīng bùshí, 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 chù
话 huà
凄 qī
凉 liáng