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.

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