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Mythic Mandarin

伤心 (shāng xīn): meaning and stroke order

伤心 (shāng xīn) means to grieve, to be broken-hearted, to feel deeply hurt.

伤心

Simplified
伤心
Traditional
傷心
Pinyin
shāng xīn

Stroke order of 伤心

伤

  • shāng to injure; injury
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 傷

Stroke by stroke

心

  • xīn heart; mind
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 伤心

  1. shāng xīn Traditional 傷心
    • to grieve
    • to be broken-hearted
    • to feel deeply hurt

Radicals of the characters

伤
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 6 strokes
心
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 4 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

伤心 in our stories

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  • 十二点一到，楼上果然传来了钢琴声，弹得很美，也有点儿伤心。

    shí'èr diǎn yí dào lóushàng guǒrán chuánlái le gāngqín shēng tán de hěn měi yě yǒudiǎnr shāngxīn

    As soon as it struck twelve, piano music did come from upstairs: beautiful, and a little sad.

    From the story The piano at midnight HSK 4

  • 原来，她的父亲是一位画家，画这幅画的时候突然去世了，她伤心得病倒了，没多久也离开了人间。

    yuánlái tā de fùqīn shì yí wèi huàjiā huà zhè fú huà de shíhou tūrán qùshì le tā shāngxīn de bìng dǎo le méi duōjiǔ yě líkāi le rénjiān

    It turned out her father had been a painter who died suddenly while working on this picture; she fell ill with grief and soon left this world too.

    From the story The girl in the painting HSK 5

Stories using 伤心

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).