可怜
Pinyin: kě lián
pitiful
Example sentence
这只小猫真可怜。
Zhè zhī xiǎo māo zhēn kělián.
This kitten is so pitiful.
What 可怜 means
可怜 (kě lián) is a Chinese word meaning “pitiful”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at HSK 4, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.