Chinese symbol for “haggard”
悴
cuì
haggard; sad; downcast; distressed
The closest CC-CEDICT match for haggard is 悴 (cuì), defined as: haggard; sad; downcast; distressed.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “haggard”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 憔悴 | qiáo cuì | wan and sallow; thin and pallid |
| 枯槁 | kū gǎo | (of vegetation) withered; (of a person) haggard |
| 累累 | léi léi | (literary) (of fruit, achievements etc) clusters of; piles of; heaps of; (literary) gaunt; haggard; wretched |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 悴.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 憔悴 | qiáo cuì | wan and sallow; thin and pallid |
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.