grief; distress; bereavement; grieved; heartbroken; dejected

to entreat; to implore; to plead

to wail; to cry piteously; (of a wild animal) to howl

Ai (c. 2000 BC), sixth of legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God, also known as Li 釐|厘[Li2]

(bound form) sorrow; grief; pity; (bound form) to grieve for; to pity; to lament; to condole

to wail; to cry piteously (variant of 哀嚎[ai1 hao2])

funeral music; plaint; dirge

to persuade by all possible means; to implore

to sigh; to lament; to bewail

obituary (archaic term)

to beg piteously; to supplicate

to weep in sorrow

bereavement

(esp. of poetry, music) melancholy; sad and moving

son orphaned of his mother

I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas)

joint name for the Han dynasty emperors Aidi (reigned 7-1 BC) and Pingdi (reigned 1 BC - 6 AD)

to feel compassion for; to pity

grief-stricken thoughts; mourning

grief; resentment; aggrieved; plaintive

to be deeply grieved

to take pity on; to feel sorry for

sorrow; sadness; distressed; sorrowful

sorrow; grief

mournful song; dirge; elegy

to wail

to grieve; to mourn; deep sorrow; grief

to take pity on; to feel sorry for

variant of 哀豔|哀艳[ai1 yan4]

(literary) reverence accorded to sb who has died; posthumous recognition

variant of 哀辭|哀辞[ai1 ci2]

dirge; lament

(of animals, the wind etc) to make a mournful sound; whine; moan; wail

an army burning with righteous indignation is bound to win (idiom)

to bring tribute as sign of submission (idiom); to submit

see 哀毀骨立|哀毁骨立[ai1 hui3 gu3 li4]

(idiom) to become emaciated from grief, esp. while mourning the death of a parent

Lament for the South, long poem in Fu style by Yu Xin 庾信 mourning the passing of Liang of the Southern dynasties 南朝梁朝

deeply felt but not mawkish (idiom)

lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims; starving people fill the land

(loanword) (old) ultimatum

nothing sadder than a withered heart (idiom attributed to Confucius by Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]); no greater sorrow than a heart that never rejoices; the worst sorrow is not as bad as an uncaring heart; nothing is more wretched than apathy