悲しい

Kana: かなしい

sad

Example sentence

その知らせを聞いて悲しいです。

そのしらせをきいてかなしいです。

I'm sad to hear that news.

What 悲しい means

悲しい (かなしい) is a Japanese word meaning “sad”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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