Question

哀 あわ.れ、あわ.れむ、かな.しい 可哀相(かわいそう): poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful哀れ(あわれ): (1) pity; sorrow; grief; misery; compassion; pathos (2) pitiable; pitiful; pathetic; miserable (3) alack; alas S 衣: garment; clothes; dressing口: mouth 口 3 (none) pathetic A poor, homeless child like Oliver Twist, with a hungry open mouth, is pathetic-- in the original sense of the noun "pathos." The tattered tophat and scarf he wears only adds to the pathos.

Accepted Answer

アイ pathetic, grief, sorrow, pathos, pity, sympathize 1 1715 9 30 くち・くちへん 会意 Compound Ideographic One of my friends with a crazy sense of fashion loves to wear a tophat and a scarf so that you can´t see his whole face but only his mouth. He thinks it´s cool. I think it´s pathetic. 428

Kanji	哀
Onyomi	アイ
Kunyomi	あわ.れ、あわ.れむ、かな.しい
English	pathetic, grief, sorrow, pathos, pity, sympathize
Examples	可哀相(かわいそう): poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful 哀れ(あわれ): (1) pity; sorrow; grief; misery; compassion; pathos (2) pitiable; pitiful; pathetic; miserable (3) alack; alas
JLPT Level	1
Jouyou Grade	S
Frequency	1715
Components	衣: garment; clothes; dressing 口: mouth
Number of Strokes	9
Kanji Radical	口
Radical Number	30
Radical Strokes	3
Radical Reading	くち・くちへん
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword	pathetic
Koohii Story 1	One of my friends with a crazy sense of fashion loves to wear a tophat and a scarf so that you can´t see his whole face but only his mouth. He thinks it´s cool. I think it´s pathetic.
Koohii Story 2	A poor, homeless child like Oliver Twist, with a hungry open mouth, is pathetic-- in the original sense of the noun "pathos." The tattered tophat and scarf he wears only adds to the pathos.
RTK Index (new)	428

Pitiable Pathetic Sense Tophat Scarf It´S 哀 アイ

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