可怜

可怜 kělián in a sentence

Pitiful

Full dictionary entry HSK 4 2 sentences

可怜 (kělián) means Pitiful. Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

那只小狗看起来很 可怜

Nà zhī xiǎo gǒu kàn qǐlái hěn kělián.

That little dog looks pitiful.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 可怜

他一个人在外面,真 可怜

Tā yí ge rén zài wàimiàn, zhēn kělián.

He is out there all alone; it is really sad.

Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 可怜

Questions about 可怜

How is 可怜 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 可怜 (kělián, "Pitiful"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 可怜 an HSK word?

Yes — 可怜 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.

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The dictionary page for 可怜 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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