"可憐" meaning in Chinese

See 可憐 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ li̯ɛn³⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /hɔː³⁵ liːn²¹/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /hᵘɔ⁵⁵ len²²/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA, Taicheng, Taishanese], /kʰo³¹ li̯en¹¹/ [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sinological-IPA, Sixian], /kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lin²³/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung], /kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/ [Hokkien, Taipei, Xiamen], /kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin¹³/ [Hokkien, Zhangzhou], /kʰɔ̃⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/ [Hokkien, Jinjiang, Philippines, Quanzhou], /kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²⁴/ [Hokkien, Taipei], /kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²³/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung], /kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ li̯ɛn³⁵/, /hɔː³⁵ liːn²¹/, /hᵘɔ⁵⁵ len²²/, /kʰo³¹ li̯en¹¹/, /kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lin²³/, /kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/, /kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin¹³/, /kʰɔ̃⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/, /kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²⁴/, /kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²³/ Chinese transliterations: kělián [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄎㄜˇ ㄌㄧㄢˊ [Mandarin, bopomofo], ho² lin⁴ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Jyutping], ho² len³ [Cantonese, Taishan, Wiktionary-specific], khó-lièn [Hakka, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], khó-lîn, khóⁿ-lîn, khó-liân, kělián [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], kělián [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], kʻo³-lien² [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], kě-lyán [Mandarin, Yale], keelian [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], кэлянь [Mandarin, Palladius], kɛljanʹ [Mandarin, Palladius], ho² lin⁴ [Cantonese, Jyutping], hó lìhn [Cantonese, Yale], ho² lin⁴ [Cantonese, Pinyin], ho² lin⁴ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], ho² len³ [Cantonese, Taicheng, Taishanese, Wiktionary-specific], khó-lièn [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], ko` lienˇ [Hakka, Hakka-Romanization-System, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], ko³ lian² [Hagfa-Pinyim, Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], khó-lîn [Hokkien, POJ], khó-lîn [Hokkien, Tai-lo], qoyliin [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], khóⁿ-lîn [Hokkien, POJ], khónn-lîn [Hokkien, Tai-lo], qvofliin [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], khó-liân [Hokkien, POJ], khó-liân [Hokkien, Tai-lo], qoylieen [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], khaX len [Middle-Chinese], /*[k]ʰˤa[j]ʔ rˤiŋ/ [Baxter-Sagart, Old-Chinese], /*kʰaːlʔ riːn/ [Old-Chinese, Zhengzhang]
Head templates: {{head|zh|adjective}} 可憐
  1. pitiful; pitiable; poor Synonyms: 可憐代, 造孽, 孽障, 罪過
    Sense id: en-可憐-zh-adj-CCXsF3HZ Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 46 47 3 4
  2. meager; negligible (of a number or amount)
    Sense id: en-可憐-zh-adj-28MLAepJ Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 46 47 3 4
  3. (literary) lovely Tags: literary Categories (topical): Emotions
    Sense id: en-可憐-zh-adj--FtDBnoo Disambiguation of Emotions: 16 15 67 2 Categories (other): Elementary Mandarin Disambiguation of Elementary Mandarin: 13 25 54 8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 一副可憐相, 一副可怜相, 可憐代, 可怜代, 可憐兮兮, 可怜兮兮, 可憐巴巴 (kěliánbābā), 可怜巴巴 (kěliánbābā), 可憐蟲 (kěliánchóng), 可怜虫 (kěliánchóng), 可憐見 (kěliánjiàn), 可怜见 (kěliánjiàn), 少得可憐, 少得可怜, 楚楚可憐 (chǔchǔkělián), 楚楚可怜 (chǔchǔkělián)

Verb

IPA: /kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ li̯ɛn³⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /hɔː³⁵ liːn²¹/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /hᵘɔ⁵⁵ len²²/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA, Taicheng, Taishanese], /kʰo³¹ li̯en¹¹/ [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sinological-IPA, Sixian], /kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lin²³/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung], /kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/ [Hokkien, Taipei, Xiamen], /kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin¹³/ [Hokkien, Zhangzhou], /kʰɔ̃⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/ [Hokkien, Jinjiang, Philippines, Quanzhou], /kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²⁴/ [Hokkien, Taipei], /kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²³/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung], /kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ li̯ɛn³⁵/, /hɔː³⁵ liːn²¹/, /hᵘɔ⁵⁵ len²²/, /kʰo³¹ li̯en¹¹/, /kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lin²³/, /kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/, /kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin¹³/, /kʰɔ̃⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/, /kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²⁴/, /kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²³/ Chinese transliterations: kělián [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄎㄜˇ ㄌㄧㄢˊ [Mandarin, bopomofo], ho² lin⁴ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Hong-Kong, Jyutping], ho² len³ [Cantonese, Taishan, Wiktionary-specific], khó-lièn [Hakka, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], khó-lîn, khóⁿ-lîn, khó-liân, kělián [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], kělián [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], kʻo³-lien² [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], kě-lyán [Mandarin, Yale], keelian [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], кэлянь [Mandarin, Palladius], kɛljanʹ [Mandarin, Palladius], ho² lin⁴ [Cantonese, Jyutping], hó lìhn [Cantonese, Yale], ho² lin⁴ [Cantonese, Pinyin], ho² lin⁴ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], ho² len³ [Cantonese, Taicheng, Taishanese, Wiktionary-specific], khó-lièn [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], ko` lienˇ [Hakka, Hakka-Romanization-System, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], ko³ lian² [Hagfa-Pinyim, Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], khó-lîn [Hokkien, POJ], khó-lîn [Hokkien, Tai-lo], qoyliin [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], khóⁿ-lîn [Hokkien, POJ], khónn-lîn [Hokkien, Tai-lo], qvofliin [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], khó-liân [Hokkien, POJ], khó-liân [Hokkien, Tai-lo], qoylieen [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], khaX len [Middle-Chinese], /*[k]ʰˤa[j]ʔ rˤiŋ/ [Baxter-Sagart, Old-Chinese], /*kʰaːlʔ riːn/ [Old-Chinese, Zhengzhang]
Head templates: {{head|zh|verb}} 可憐
  1. to have pity on; to pity
    Sense id: en-可憐-zh-verb-0qijRkIk Synonyms: 同情 (tóngqíng), 哀憐 (āilián), 哀怜 (āilián), 哀矜 (āijīn) [literary], 心疼 (xīnténg), 悲憫 (bēimǐn), 悲悯 (bēimǐn), 惻隱 (cèyǐn) [formal], 恻隐 (cèyǐn) [formal], 憐惜 (liánxī), 怜惜 (liánxī), 憐憫 (liánmǐn), 怜悯 (liánmǐn)

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      "expansion": "可憐",
      "name": "head"
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  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I feel sorry for him.",
          "roman": "Wǒ hěn kělián tā.",
          "text": "我很可憐他。/我很可怜他。",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Having sworn to conquer the Huns, they did not care for their lives; five thousand brocade and marten [uniforms] were lost amid the barbarian dusts. I pity these skeletons on the banks of the Wuding; they are still the men in the dreams of the women's quarters.",
          "ref": "誓掃匈奴不顧身,五千貂錦喪胡塵。可憐無定河邊骨,猶是春閨夢裏人。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "誓扫匈奴不顾身,五千貂锦丧胡尘。可怜无定河边骨,犹是春闺梦里人。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: 《隴西行四首/陇西行四首》, Chen Tao, ninth century CE\nShì sǎo Xiōngnú bù gù shēn, wǔ qiān diāo jǐn sàng húchén. Kělián Wúdìng hé biān gǔ, yóu shì chūnguī mèng lǐ rén. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to have pity on; to pity"
      ],
      "id": "en-可憐-zh-verb-0qijRkIk",
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        [
          "have",
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        ],
        [
          "pity",
          "pity"
        ]
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "roman": "tóngqíng",
          "word": "同情"
        },
        {
          "roman": "āilián",
          "word": "哀憐"
        },
        {
          "roman": "āilián",
          "word": "哀怜"
        },
        {
          "roman": "āijīn",
          "tags": [
            "literary"
          ],
          "word": "哀矜"
        },
        {
          "roman": "xīnténg",
          "word": "心疼"
        },
        {
          "roman": "bēimǐn",
          "word": "悲憫"
        },
        {
          "roman": "bēimǐn",
          "word": "悲悯"
        },
        {
          "roman": "cèyǐn",
          "tags": [
            "formal"
          ],
          "word": "惻隱"
        },
        {
          "roman": "cèyǐn",
          "tags": [
            "formal"
          ],
          "word": "恻隐"
        },
        {
          "roman": "liánxī",
          "word": "憐惜"
        },
        {
          "roman": "liánxī",
          "word": "怜惜"
        },
        {
          "roman": "liánmǐn",
          "word": "憐憫"
        },
        {
          "roman": "liánmǐn",
          "word": "怜悯"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kělián"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄎㄜˇ ㄌㄧㄢˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² lin⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Taishan",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² len³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-lièn"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "khó-lîn"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "khóⁿ-lîn"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "khó-liân"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kělián"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kělián"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kʻo³-lien²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kě-lyán"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "keelian"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "кэлянь"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kɛljanʹ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ li̯ɛn³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² lin⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hó lìhn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² lin⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² lin⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː³⁵ liːn²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Taicheng",
        "Taishanese",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² len³"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hᵘɔ⁵⁵ len²²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Taicheng",
        "Taishanese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-lièn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ko` lienˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ko³ lian²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo³¹ li̯en¹¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "qoyliin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lin²³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khóⁿ-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khónn-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "qvofliin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɔ̃⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Jinjiang",
        "Philippines",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-liân"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-liân"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "qoylieen"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khaX len"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Baxter-Sagart",
        "Old-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*[k]ʰˤa[j]ʔ rˤiŋ/"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*kʰaːlʔ riːn/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/ khóⁿ-lîn /"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ li̯ɛn³⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː³⁵ liːn²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hᵘɔ⁵⁵ len²²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo³¹ li̯en¹¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lin²³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin¹³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɔ̃⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²³/"
    },
    {
      "other": "[k]"
    },
    {
      "other": "[j]"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*kʰaːlʔ riːn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "可憐"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "一副可憐相"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "一副可怜相"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "可憐代"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "可怜代"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "可憐兮兮"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "可怜兮兮"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kěliánbābā",
      "word": "可憐巴巴"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kěliánbābā",
      "word": "可怜巴巴"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kěliánchóng",
      "word": "可憐蟲"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kěliánchóng",
      "word": "可怜虫"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kěliánjiàn",
      "word": "可憐見"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kěliánjiàn",
      "word": "可怜见"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "少得可憐"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "少得可怜"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "chǔchǔkělián",
      "word": "楚楚可憐"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "chǔchǔkělián",
      "word": "楚楚可怜"
    }
  ],
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        "1": "zh",
        "2": "adjective"
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      "expansion": "可憐",
      "name": "head"
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  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "46 47 3 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "poor kid",
          "roman": "kělián de háizi",
          "text": "可憐的孩子/可怜的孩子",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "You are at your wit's end. You wish to recover your proper nature, and you know not what step to take first to find it. You are to be pitied!",
          "ref": "惘惘乎汝欲反汝情性而無由入,可憐哉! [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "惘惘乎汝欲反汝情性而无由入,可怜哉! [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: Zhuangzi, circa 3ʳᵈ – 2ⁿᵈ centuries BCE\nWǎngwǎng hū rǔ yù fǎn rǔ qíngxìng ér wúyóu rù, kělián zāi! [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "With a pitiable gait, my pitiable self calls for Garyeon in front of her door. I convey to her my pitiable intention; surely she'll understand my pitiable heart.",
          "ref": "可憐行色可憐身,可憐門前訪可憐。可憐此意傳可憐,可憐能知可憐心。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]",
          "text": "From: 《可憐妓詩》 (\"Poem to the Courtesan Garyeon\"), Kim Byeong'yeon (金炳淵), c. 1830\nGaryeon haengsaek garyeon sin, Garyeon munjeon bang Garyeon. Garyeon cha ui jeon Garyeon, Garyeon neung ji garyeon sim. [Sino-Korean]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pitiful; pitiable; poor"
      ],
      "id": "en-可憐-zh-adj-CCXsF3HZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "pitiful",
          "pitiful"
        ],
        [
          "pitiable",
          "pitiable"
        ],
        [
          "poor",
          "poor"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "可憐代"
        },
        {
          "word": "造孽"
        },
        {
          "word": "孽障"
        },
        {
          "word": "罪過"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "46 47 3 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "meager; negligible (of a number or amount)"
      ],
      "id": "en-可憐-zh-adj-28MLAepJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "meager",
          "meager"
        ],
        [
          "negligible",
          "negligible"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "13 25 54 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Elementary Mandarin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 15 67 2",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "zh",
          "name": "Emotions",
          "orig": "zh:Emotions",
          "parents": [
            "Mind",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I ask: who in palaces of the Han can approach her like? Even the lovely swallow must dress up anew.",
          "ref": "借問漢宮誰得似,可憐飛燕倚新妝。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "借问汉宫谁得似,可怜飞燕倚新妆。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: 《淸平調詞三首/清平调词三首》, Li Bai, 800s\nJiè wèn Hàn gōng shuí dé sì, kělián fēiyàn yǐ xīn zhuāng. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "How lovely it is to look at the riverbank; the bright sands stretch on for ten miles. I would make people pick up [and count] each and every [grain of sand]; may your parents' years be as innumerable as they.",
          "ref": "可憐江浦望,明沙十里連。令人箇箇拾,共數父母年。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]",
          "text": "From: 《贈還甲宴老人》 (\"For an Old Woman on her Sixtieth Birthday\"), Kim Byeong'yeon (金炳淵), c. 1830\nGaryeon gangpo mang, myeongsa sim ni ryeon. Yeong in gaegae seup, gongsu bumo nyeon. [Sino-Korean]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "lovely"
      ],
      "id": "en-可憐-zh-adj--FtDBnoo",
      "links": [
        [
          "lovely",
          "lovely"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary) lovely"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kělián"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄎㄜˇ ㄌㄧㄢˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² lin⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Taishan",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² len³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-lièn"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "khó-lîn"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "khóⁿ-lîn"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "khó-liân"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kělián"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kělián"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kʻo³-lien²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kě-lyán"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "keelian"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "кэлянь"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kɛljanʹ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ li̯ɛn³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² lin⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hó lìhn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² lin⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² lin⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː³⁵ liːn²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Taicheng",
        "Taishanese",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² len³"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hᵘɔ⁵⁵ len²²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Taicheng",
        "Taishanese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-lièn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ko` lienˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ko³ lian²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo³¹ li̯en¹¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "qoyliin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lin²³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khóⁿ-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khónn-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "qvofliin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɔ̃⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Jinjiang",
        "Philippines",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-liân"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-liân"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "qoylieen"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khaX len"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Baxter-Sagart",
        "Old-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*[k]ʰˤa[j]ʔ rˤiŋ/"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*kʰaːlʔ riːn/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/ khóⁿ-lîn /"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ li̯ɛn³⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː³⁵ liːn²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hᵘɔ⁵⁵ len²²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo³¹ li̯en¹¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lin²³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin¹³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɔ̃⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²³/"
    },
    {
      "other": "[k]"
    },
    {
      "other": "[j]"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*kʰaːlʔ riːn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "可憐"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Chinese adjectives",
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Chinese verbs",
    "Elementary Mandarin",
    "Middle Chinese lemmas",
    "Old Chinese lemmas",
    "zh:Emotions"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "可憐",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations",
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I feel sorry for him.",
          "roman": "Wǒ hěn kělián tā.",
          "text": "我很可憐他。/我很可怜他。",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Having sworn to conquer the Huns, they did not care for their lives; five thousand brocade and marten [uniforms] were lost amid the barbarian dusts. I pity these skeletons on the banks of the Wuding; they are still the men in the dreams of the women's quarters.",
          "ref": "誓掃匈奴不顧身,五千貂錦喪胡塵。可憐無定河邊骨,猶是春閨夢裏人。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "誓扫匈奴不顾身,五千貂锦丧胡尘。可怜无定河边骨,犹是春闺梦里人。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: 《隴西行四首/陇西行四首》, Chen Tao, ninth century CE\nShì sǎo Xiōngnú bù gù shēn, wǔ qiān diāo jǐn sàng húchén. Kělián Wúdìng hé biān gǔ, yóu shì chūnguī mèng lǐ rén. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to have pity on; to pity"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "have",
          "have"
        ],
        [
          "pity",
          "pity"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kělián"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄎㄜˇ ㄌㄧㄢˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² lin⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Taishan",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² len³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-lièn"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "khó-lîn"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "khóⁿ-lîn"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "khó-liân"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kělián"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kělián"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kʻo³-lien²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kě-lyán"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "keelian"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "кэлянь"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kɛljanʹ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ li̯ɛn³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² lin⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hó lìhn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² lin⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² lin⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː³⁵ liːn²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Taicheng",
        "Taishanese",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² len³"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hᵘɔ⁵⁵ len²²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Taicheng",
        "Taishanese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-lièn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ko` lienˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ko³ lian²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo³¹ li̯en¹¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "qoyliin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lin²³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khóⁿ-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khónn-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "qvofliin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɔ̃⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Jinjiang",
        "Philippines",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-liân"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-liân"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "qoylieen"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khaX len"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Baxter-Sagart",
        "Old-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*[k]ʰˤa[j]ʔ rˤiŋ/"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*kʰaːlʔ riːn/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/ khóⁿ-lîn /"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ li̯ɛn³⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː³⁵ liːn²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hᵘɔ⁵⁵ len²²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo³¹ li̯en¹¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lin²³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin¹³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɔ̃⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²³/"
    },
    {
      "other": "[k]"
    },
    {
      "other": "[j]"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*kʰaːlʔ riːn/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "tóngqíng",
      "word": "同情"
    },
    {
      "roman": "āilián",
      "word": "哀憐"
    },
    {
      "roman": "āilián",
      "word": "哀怜"
    },
    {
      "roman": "āijīn",
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ],
      "word": "哀矜"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xīnténg",
      "word": "心疼"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bēimǐn",
      "word": "悲憫"
    },
    {
      "roman": "bēimǐn",
      "word": "悲悯"
    },
    {
      "roman": "cèyǐn",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ],
      "word": "惻隱"
    },
    {
      "roman": "cèyǐn",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ],
      "word": "恻隐"
    },
    {
      "roman": "liánxī",
      "word": "憐惜"
    },
    {
      "roman": "liánxī",
      "word": "怜惜"
    },
    {
      "roman": "liánmǐn",
      "word": "憐憫"
    },
    {
      "roman": "liánmǐn",
      "word": "怜悯"
    }
  ],
  "word": "可憐"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Chinese adjectives",
    "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Chinese lemmas",
    "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Chinese verbs",
    "Elementary Mandarin",
    "Middle Chinese lemmas",
    "Old Chinese lemmas",
    "zh:Emotions"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "一副可憐相"
    },
    {
      "word": "一副可怜相"
    },
    {
      "word": "可憐代"
    },
    {
      "word": "可怜代"
    },
    {
      "word": "可憐兮兮"
    },
    {
      "word": "可怜兮兮"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kěliánbābā",
      "word": "可憐巴巴"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kěliánbābā",
      "word": "可怜巴巴"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kěliánchóng",
      "word": "可憐蟲"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kěliánchóng",
      "word": "可怜虫"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kěliánjiàn",
      "word": "可憐見"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kěliánjiàn",
      "word": "可怜见"
    },
    {
      "word": "少得可憐"
    },
    {
      "word": "少得可怜"
    },
    {
      "roman": "chǔchǔkělián",
      "word": "楚楚可憐"
    },
    {
      "roman": "chǔchǔkělián",
      "word": "楚楚可怜"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "可憐",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations",
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "poor kid",
          "roman": "kělián de háizi",
          "text": "可憐的孩子/可怜的孩子",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "You are at your wit's end. You wish to recover your proper nature, and you know not what step to take first to find it. You are to be pitied!",
          "ref": "惘惘乎汝欲反汝情性而無由入,可憐哉! [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "惘惘乎汝欲反汝情性而无由入,可怜哉! [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: Zhuangzi, circa 3ʳᵈ – 2ⁿᵈ centuries BCE\nWǎngwǎng hū rǔ yù fǎn rǔ qíngxìng ér wúyóu rù, kělián zāi! [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "With a pitiable gait, my pitiable self calls for Garyeon in front of her door. I convey to her my pitiable intention; surely she'll understand my pitiable heart.",
          "ref": "可憐行色可憐身,可憐門前訪可憐。可憐此意傳可憐,可憐能知可憐心。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]",
          "text": "From: 《可憐妓詩》 (\"Poem to the Courtesan Garyeon\"), Kim Byeong'yeon (金炳淵), c. 1830\nGaryeon haengsaek garyeon sin, Garyeon munjeon bang Garyeon. Garyeon cha ui jeon Garyeon, Garyeon neung ji garyeon sim. [Sino-Korean]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pitiful; pitiable; poor"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pitiful",
          "pitiful"
        ],
        [
          "pitiable",
          "pitiable"
        ],
        [
          "poor",
          "poor"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "可憐代"
        },
        {
          "word": "造孽"
        },
        {
          "word": "孽障"
        },
        {
          "word": "罪過"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "meager; negligible (of a number or amount)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "meager",
          "meager"
        ],
        [
          "negligible",
          "negligible"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Chinese literary terms",
        "Literary Chinese terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I ask: who in palaces of the Han can approach her like? Even the lovely swallow must dress up anew.",
          "ref": "借問漢宮誰得似,可憐飛燕倚新妝。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]",
          "text": "借问汉宫谁得似,可怜飞燕倚新妆。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]\nFrom: 《淸平調詞三首/清平调词三首》, Li Bai, 800s\nJiè wèn Hàn gōng shuí dé sì, kělián fēiyàn yǐ xīn zhuāng. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "How lovely it is to look at the riverbank; the bright sands stretch on for ten miles. I would make people pick up [and count] each and every [grain of sand]; may your parents' years be as innumerable as they.",
          "ref": "可憐江浦望,明沙十里連。令人箇箇拾,共數父母年。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]",
          "text": "From: 《贈還甲宴老人》 (\"For an Old Woman on her Sixtieth Birthday\"), Kim Byeong'yeon (金炳淵), c. 1830\nGaryeon gangpo mang, myeongsa sim ni ryeon. Yeong in gaegae seup, gongsu bumo nyeon. [Sino-Korean]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "lovely"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lovely",
          "lovely"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literary) lovely"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kělián"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄎㄜˇ ㄌㄧㄢˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Hong-Kong",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² lin⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Taishan",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² len³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-lièn"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "khó-lîn"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "khóⁿ-lîn"
    },
    {
      "zh-pron": "khó-liân"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kělián"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kělián"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kʻo³-lien²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kě-lyán"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "keelian"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "кэлянь"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "kɛljanʹ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ li̯ɛn³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² lin⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "hó lìhn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² lin⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² lin⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː³⁵ liːn²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Taicheng",
        "Taishanese",
        "Wiktionary-specific"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ho² len³"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hᵘɔ⁵⁵ len²²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Taicheng",
        "Taishanese"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-lièn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ko` lienˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ko³ lian²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo³¹ li̯en¹¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "qoyliin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lin²³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khóⁿ-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khónn-lîn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "qvofliin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɔ̃⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Jinjiang",
        "Philippines",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-liân"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khó-liân"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "qoylieen"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Middle-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "khaX len"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Baxter-Sagart",
        "Old-Chinese"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*[k]ʰˤa[j]ʔ rˤiŋ/"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Old-Chinese",
        "Zhengzhang"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "/*kʰaːlʔ riːn/"
    },
    {
      "other": "/ khóⁿ-lîn /"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹ li̯ɛn³⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hɔː³⁵ liːn²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/hᵘɔ⁵⁵ len²²/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo³¹ li̯en¹¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ lin²³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ lin¹³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɔ̃⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ lin²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰo⁵³⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kʰɤ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ liɛn²³/"
    },
    {
      "other": "[k]"
    },
    {
      "other": "[j]"
    },
    {
      "other": "/*kʰaːlʔ riːn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "可憐"
}

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