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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

悲伤

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bēishāng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Grief/ɡriːf/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1850 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"她强忍着悲伤参加了葬礼。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    Deep sorrow, especially that caused by someone's death.

    "She was overwhelmed with grief after the loss of her husband."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old French 'grief', meaning a hardship, burden, or cause of distress, which stems from the Latin 'gravis' (heavy). The semantic shift moved from a general sense of grievance or burden to the specific emotional suffering caused by loss.

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