Chinese symbol for “worrisome”
堪虞
kān yú
worrisome; precarious; to be at risk
The closest CC-CEDICT match for worrisome is 堪虞 (kān yú), defined as: worrisome; precarious; to be at risk.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “worrisome”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 堪虞.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不堪 | bù kān | cannot bear; cannot stand |
| 难堪 (難堪) | nán kān | hard to take; embarrassed |
| 堪称 (堪稱) | kān chēng | can be rated as; can be said to be |
| 不堪一击 (不堪一擊) | bù kān yī jī | (idiom) unable to withstand a single blow; to collapse at the first blow |
| 堪忧 (堪憂) | kān yōu | worrying; bleak |
| 疲惫不堪 (疲憊不堪) | pí bèi bù kān | exhausted; fatigued to the extreme |
| 无虞 (無虞) | wú yú | to be free from danger or cause for concern |
| 尔虞我诈 (爾虞我詐) | ěr yú wǒ zhà | lit. you hoodwink me and I cheat you (idiom); fig. each tries to outwit the other |
See also: Japanese symbol for “worrisome”.
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.