Chinese symbol for “distraught”
凄惶
qī huáng
Traditional: 淒惶
distressed and terrified; distraught (literary)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for distraught is 凄惶 (qī huáng), defined as: distressed and terrified; distraught (literary).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 凄惶.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 凄惨 (悽慘) | qī cǎn | plaintive; mournful |
| 凄凉 (悽涼) | qī liáng | mournful; miserable |
| 凄苦 (悽苦) | qī kǔ | bleak; miserable |
| 凄美 (淒美) | qī měi | poignant; sad and beautiful |
| 凄厉 (淒厲) | qī lì | mournful (sound) |
| 惶恐 | huáng kǒng | terrified |
| 人心惶惶 | rén xīn huáng huáng | (idiom) everyone is anxious; (of a group of people) to feel anxious |
| 惊惶 (驚惶) | jīng huáng | panic-stricken |
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.