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Chinese symbol for “dismayed”

沮丧
jǔ sàng
Traditional: 沮喪
dispirited; dejected; dismayed

The closest CC-CEDICT match for dismayed is 沮丧 (jǔ sàng), defined as: dispirited; dejected; dismayed.

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Characters and stroke order

沮 jǔ
to stop, to prevent; dejected, defeated
radical 85 ⽔ · 8 strokes
丧 sàng
mourning; mourn; funeral
radical 1 ⼀ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 沮丧.

WordPinyinMeaning
丧失 (喪失)sàng shīto lose; to forfeit
丧生 (喪生)sàng shēngto die; to lose one's life
丧命 (喪命)sàng mìngto lose one's life
丧尸 (喪屍)sāng shīzombie
丧礼 (喪禮)sāng lǐfuneral

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.