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There are 9 total results for your 可憐 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

可憐


可怜

see styles
kě lián
    ke3 lian2
k`o lien
    ko lien
 karen
    かれん
pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on
(noun or adjectival noun) (1) sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; (noun or adjectival noun) (2) pitiful; pitiable; (female given name) Karen

可憐蟲


可怜虫

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kě lián chóng
    ke3 lian2 chong2
k`o lien ch`ung
    ko lien chung
pitiful creature; wretch

可憐見


可怜见

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kě lián jiàn
    ke3 lian2 jian4
k`o lien chien
    ko lien chien
(coll.) pitiable; to have pity on sb

可憐兮兮


可怜兮兮

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kě lián xī xī
    ke3 lian2 xi1 xi1
k`o lien hsi hsi
    ko lien hsi hsi
miserable; wretched

可憐巴巴


可怜巴巴

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kě lián bā bā
    ke3 lian2 ba1 ba1
k`o lien pa pa
    ko lien pa pa
pathetic; pitiful

楚楚可憐


楚楚可怜

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chǔ chǔ - kě lián
    chu3 chu3 - ke3 lian2
ch`u ch`u - k`o lien
    chu chu - ko lien
(idiom) pitiable; sweet, innocent and vulnerable

紅顔可憐

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 kougankaren / kogankaren
    こうがんかれん
(noun or adjectival noun) (yoji) youthful and endearing; rosy-cheeked and sweet

純情可憐

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 junjoukaren / junjokaren
    じゅんじょうかれん
(noun or adjectival noun) (yoji) pure of heart and pretty

純真可憐

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 junshinkaren
    じゅんしんかれん
(noun or adjectival noun) (yoji) pure of heart and beautiful; innocent and beautiful

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 9 results for "可憐" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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