How to write 怜

怜 lián [verb] 【Original meaning】: Pity, compassion 1. 可怜；同情： - Pity; compassion: 可怜 (to be pitiful); 同病相怜 (to have mutual sympathy in shared suffering). 2. 爱： - Love: 爱才 (to cherish talent); 怜念 (to think fondly of); 怜爱 (to be fond of); 爱怜 (to cherish); 怜香惜玉 (to cherish the fragrant and exquisite, specifically referring to love for women); 顾影自怜 (to feel pity for oneself). 3. 通“吝”。吝惜： - Also known as “stint”: 吝惜 (to be stingy with). 4. 遗憾： - Regret; sorrow over: 遗憾 (to lament). 引 1. 《说文》：憐，哀也。从心。粦声。字亦作怜。 - "Shuowen Jiezi": "怜" means to feel sorrow. It derives from the heart and corresponds to the sound 念. 2. 《尔雅》：矜憐抚掩之也。 - "Erya": To show compassion and to comfort. 3. 《史记·魏公子列传》：独不怜公子姊邪? - "Records of the Grand Historian": Do you not pity the young lord's sister? 4. 韩愈《应科目时与人书》：若俯首贴耳，摇尾而乞怜者，非我之志也。 - Han Yu: To bow and plead for pity is not my intention. 5. 《史记·淮阴侯列传》：且喜且怜之。 - "Records of the Grand Historian": To be both pleased and pitying. 6. 《史记·郦生陆贾列传》：天子怜百姓新劳苦，故且休之。 - "Records of the Grand Historian": The emperor pities the people's recent hardships and thus grants them rest. 7. 清· 袁枚《祭妹文》：所怜者。 - Qing Dynasty: The one to be pitied. 例 - 例如: 可怜 (to be pitiful); 怜见 (to show compassion); 怜拯 (to rescue out of pity); 怜鉴 (to pity and observe); 怜闵 (to sympathize). 引 1. 《尔雅》：憐，爱也。 - "Erya": "怜" means love. 2. 《史记·陈涉世家》：楚人怜之。 - "Records of the Grand Historian": The people of Chu pity him. 3. 《战国策·赵策》：丈夫亦爱怜其少子乎? - "Strategies of the Warring States": Does a man also not love and cherish his youngest son? 例 - 例如: 爱怜 (to cherish deeply); 怜才 (to cherish talent); 怜忪 (to cherish the sleepy state); 怜香 (to love the fragrance of flowers); 怜遇 (to favor and bestow kindness). 引 1. 《荀子》：不慕往，不闵来，无邑怜之心。 - "Xunzi": He does not long for the past nor regret the present, and has no heart to pity those in his town. 例 - 例如: 怜下 (to feel pity for subordinates); 怜嗟 (to feel pity and to sigh); 怜察 (to understand and feel pity for one's situation). 引 1. 清· 袁枚《祭妹文》：所怜者，吾自戊寅年读汝哭侄诗后，…至今无男。 - Qing Dynasty: The one to be pitied, since the year of the Earth Tiger, after reading your poem about your nephew's death, … until now has no sons.