怜 — Chinese character
怜
lián
to pity, to sympathize with
- Pinyin
- lián
- Radical
- 61 ⼼ (Heart)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 忄 令
- Formation
- pictophonetic — heart; meaning component 忄; sound component 令
- Traditional
- 憐
- Japanese
- 怜 as a kanji
Common words with 怜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 可怜 (可憐) | kě lián | pitiful; pathetic |
| 怜悯 (憐憫) | lián mǐn | to take pity on; pity |
| 可怜虫 (可憐蟲) | kě lián chóng | pitiful creature; wretch |
| 可怜兮兮 (可憐兮兮) | kě lián xī xī | miserable; wretched |
| 怜惜 (憐惜) | lián xī | to take pity on; to feel tenderness toward |
| 怜爱 (憐愛) | lián ài | to have tender affection for; to love tenderly |
| 同病相怜 (同病相憐) | tóng bìng xiāng lián | fellow sufferers empathize with each other (idiom); misery loves company |
| 爱怜 (愛憐) | ài lián | to show tenderness; to coo over |
| 可怜巴巴 (可憐巴巴) | kě lián bā bā | pathetic; pitiful |
| 摇尾乞怜 (搖尾乞憐) | yáo wěi qǐ lián | lit. to behave like a dog wagging its tail, seeking its master's affection (idiom); fig. to fawn on sb |
| 楚楚可怜 (楚楚可憐) | chǔ chǔ kě lián | (idiom) pitiable; sweet, innocent and vulnerable |
| 乞怜 (乞憐) | qǐ lián | to beg for pity |
English words written with 怜
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.