EntryCommonWaniKani 49
  1. Godan verb with 'mu' ending, Transitive verb

    to pity; to feel sympathy for; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to commiserate with; to have mercy on

    人々はその孤児を哀れんだ。
    People took pity on the orphan.
  2. to enjoy the beauty of; to appreciate; to admire

    Poetical term

Also written 憐れむ【あわれむ】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

pathetic, grief, sorrow, pathos, pity, sympathize

Kun
あわ.れあわ.れむかな.しい
On
アイ
Strokes
9
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
1715 of 2500
Radical
mouth
WaniKani
Level 47

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Dictionary and index codes (29)
CodeReference
2-2-7SKIP code
2j7.4The Kanji Dictionary
0073.2Four corner code
465deroo
54c0Unicode hex code
1-16-05JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
304Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
791New Nelson (John Haig)
2068New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2568Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1310Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1781Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
401Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
428Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1670A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1249Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
3580Morohashi
998A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1675Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1790Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1131Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1239Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1804Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
327Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
408Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
ai1Pinyin reading
aeKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
47WaniKani level