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Stroke order
可怜 is written in 13 strokes across 2 characters.
- 可 — 5 strokes
- 怜 — 8 strokes
Senses
- pitiful
- pathetic
- to have pity on
Example sentences
- 那只小狗看起来很可怜。Nà zhī xiǎo gǒu kàn qǐlái hěn kělián.That little dog looks pitiful.
- 他很可怜那个没有家的孩子。Tā hěn kělián nàge méiyǒu jiā de háizi.He feels sorry for that child who has no home.
Related words
可怜 is pronounced kělián and means “Nghèo, kém”. It belongs to the HSK 4 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 可怜 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.