Chinese symbol for “pathos”
伤感
shāng gǎn
Traditional: 傷感
sad; emotional; sentimental; pathos
The closest CC-CEDICT match for pathos is 伤感 (shāng gǎn), defined as: sad; emotional; sentimental; pathos.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “pathos”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 伤感.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 伤害 (傷害) | shāng hài | to injure; to harm |
| 受伤 (受傷) | shòu shāng | to sustain injuries; wounded (in an accident etc) |
| 伤心 (傷心) | shāng xīn | to grieve; to be broken-hearted |
| 悲伤 (悲傷) | bēi shāng | sad; sorrowful |
| 伤亡 (傷亡) | shāng wáng | casualties; injuries and deaths |
| 伤口 (傷口) | shāng kǒu | wound; cut |
| 感觉 (感覺) | gǎn jué | feeling; impression; sensation; to feel; to perceive |
| 感到 | gǎn dào | to feel; to sense; to perceive |
See also: Japanese symbol for “pathos”.
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.