可悲
kěbēi
lamentable; sad
Characters in this word
悲 bēi
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 心 — heart
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 真正可悲的不是失败本身，而是社会把失败者彻底排除在外。 Zhēnzhèng kěbēi de bú shì shībài běnshēn, ér shì shèhuì bǎ shībàizhě chèdǐ páichú zài wài. What is truly lamentable is not failure itself, but a society that completely excludes those who fail.
- 他有那么多钱，却没有一个真心的朋友，真可悲。 Tā yǒu nàme duō qián, què méiyǒu yí ge zhēnxīn de péngyou, zhēn kěbēi. He has so much money but not a single true friend; that is truly sad.
- 把时间都浪费在手机上，想想也挺可悲的。 Bǎ shíjiān dōu làngfèi zài shǒujī shàng, xiǎng xiǎng yě tǐng kěbēi de. Wasting all your time on the phone is rather sad when you think about it.