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愁 means "sorrow, melancholy, worry."
Sorrow - Deep sadness.
Melancholy - A feeling of pensive sadness.
Worry - Anxious concern.
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
Given names
愁(うれい)
愁(しう)
愁(しゅう)
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The meaning above is based on the following sources:
distress; grieve; lament; be anxious
anxiety; to worry about, be anxious
to worry about
anxious, worried
Worry. Such as 愁緒, 愁恨.
She was anxious about her mother's sickness.
The orchestra struck up nostalgic music.
彼が永眠したという知らせを受けましてまことに御愁傷さまです。
I heard the news of his death with deep regret.
古代人は、みすぼらしい木造船を導くために哀愁漂う灯台を建てた。
The ancient ones built the sorrowful lighthouses to guide their miserable wooden ships.
「このたびはご愁傷さまでございます」とひとことお悔みの挨拶をします。
Use a brief expression of condolence, such as: "On this sad occasion we grieve with you".
郷愁にふける時、私達は子供時代をこの上なく幸福な時期と考える傾向があるかもしれない。
In nostalgic moments we may tend to think of childhood as a time of almost unbroken happiness.
ここ浄閑寺、通称「投げ込み寺」の墓地には、最後の休息場所を見つけた何千もの遊女、いわゆる「楽しみのための女性」の慰霊碑があり、それは言い知れない哀愁に満ちていて、どういうわけか何度でもここに戻ってきたい気持ちが沸き起こる。
Here at the Jokanji, also known as the "Nagekomi-dera", in the cemetery there is a memorial to thousands of prostitutes, the so-called "women of pleasure", who have found their final resting place here. It's filled with an indescribable melancholy, and, for some reason, it makes me want to come back here again and again.
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