痛 tòng
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 疒 — sickness, disease
- Made of
- 疒 sickness, disease 甬 path
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
痛心
tòngxīn
distressed; grieved
Characters in this word
心 xīn
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 心 — heart
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 看到科研成果被恶意篡改，许多学者感到十分痛心。 Kàndào kēyán chéngguǒ bèi èyì cuàngǎi, xǔduō xuézhě gǎndào shífēn tòngxīn. Seeing research results maliciously tampered with, many scholars felt deeply distressed.
- 森林被大面积砍伐，环保人士非常痛心。 Sēnlín bèi dàmiànji kǎnfá, huánbǎo rénshì fēicháng tòngxīn. Environmentalists are greatly pained by large-scale forest logging.
- 看到河水被污染，村民们非常痛心。 Kàndào héshuǐ bèi wūrǎn, cūnmínmen fēicháng tòngxīn. Seeing the river water polluted, the villagers felt deeply pained.
Related words
- 痛 tòng to hurt; painful
- 痛苦 tòngkǔ pain; suffering
- 痛快 tòngkuài happy and satisfied
- 悲痛 bēitòng deeply sorrowful; grief-stricken
- 惨痛 cǎntòng painful; bitter; grievous
- 放心 fàngxīn to feel at ease; to not worry
- 关心 guānxīn to care about
- 开心 kāixīn happy
- 小心 xiǎoxīn careful
- 心里 xīnli in one's heart; in one's mind
- 心情 xīnqíng mood
- 心中 xīnzhōng in one's heart