lián

pity

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
忄 meaning component

  Meaning component

xinxīn

  

heart

is a component form of .

令 sound component

  Sound component

lìnglínglǐng

  

command

Evolution

怜 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
怜 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
怜 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
怜 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
怜 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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lián

pity, sympathize; to pity

Most common words with 怜
Freq.
Word
Meaning

可怜

pitiful

怜悯

pity

to pity

可怜虫

wretch

怜惜

to take pity on

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 37.9305% of movies

1091st most common character in movies

1599th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

Unicode

U+601C


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