烦忧

煩憂
fányōu
verb #42,149

Meanings

  1. 1 to worry
  2. 2 to fret
  3. 3 to be troubled (literary)

Examples

Wèi zhè diǎn xiǎoshì bùbì fányōu.
There's no need to fret over such a trifling matter.
Dài Wàngshū de shī 《Fányōu》 xiějìnle ànliàn de xīnqíng.
Dai Wangshu's poem 'Anxieties' captures every shade of unrequited love.

Tips

culture
More literary than 烦恼 (fánnǎo, worry). (Dài Wàngshū, 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

fán
yōu