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Home / Vocabulary / Chinese / HSK 6 / 可怜

可怜

Pinyin: kělián

pitiful; to have pity on; pathetic

🏮 Chinese HSK 6 adjectiveverb

Example sentence

可怜的猫。

Kělián de māo.

Poor cat.

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What 可怜 means

可怜 (kělián) is a Chinese word meaning “pitiful; to have pity on; pathetic”. It appears in the HSK 6 collection.

More HSK 6 words

HSK 6
岸 àn bank; shore; beach; coast 案例 ànlì case (of fraud, hepatitis, international cooperation etc); instance; example 按摩 ànmó to massage; massage 暗示 ànshì to hint; to suggest; hint; suggestion 昂贵 ángguì expensive; costly 白白 báibái in vain; to no purpose; for nothing; white 白领 báilǐng white-collar; white-collar worker 摆 bǎi to arrange; to exhibit; to move to and fro; a pendulum 摆放 bǎifàng to set up; to arrange; to lay out 百分点 bǎifēndiǎn percentage point 百货 bǎihuò general merchandise 摆脱 bǎituō to break away from; to cast off (old ideas etc); to get rid of
Previous word 可口 — tasty; to taste good Next word 渴望 — to thirst for; to long for

Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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