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Kanji Detail for 憖 - "reluctantly, wish, grieve, damage"

  • Meaning

    憖 means "reluctantly, wish, grieve, damage."

    1. Reluctantly - Unwillingly; by force.

    2. Wish - To desire.

    3. Grieve - To be sad; to worry.

    4. Damage - To harm; to injure.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    thoughtlessly

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    cautious; willing; but, moreover

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (literary) to wish; to prefer to; (literary) to incur damage or loss

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A sentence-initial particle. Interchangeable with 寧 in 寧可. | Moreover. (Zuo Zhuan) "Duke Ai of Lu's eulogy for Confucius said: 'Would not spare one old man.'" From the Book of Odes, Minor Odes. Zheng Xuan's commentary says it means forcing oneself when the heart doesn't want to. | Lacking. (Zuo Zhuan) "The soldiers of both armies were not yet depleted."
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