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- (idiom) emotionally sensitive and prone to melancholy
- much sorrows and illness (idiom); melancholy and weakly
Trad. 綠慘紅愁
- (of women) grieved appearance (idiom)
- sorrowful mien
Trad. 債多不愁
- lit. when up to one's ears in debt, one ceases to worry about it (idiom)
- fig. to be past worrying (about sth)
Trad. 舊愁新恨
- old worries with new hatred added (idiom); afflicted by problems old and new
Trad. 面帶愁容
- with a sad air
- looking melancholy
- with a worried look
Trad. 窮愁潦倒
- impoverished and dejected; wretched and penniless
Trad. 愁眉苦臉
- to look anxious (idiom)
- to look miserable
Trad. 愁腸百結
- hundred knots of worry in one's intestines (idiom); weighed down with anxiety
Trad. 新愁舊恨
- new worries added to old hatred (idiom); afflicted by problems old and new
Trad. 消愁解悶
- lit. to eliminate worry and dispel melancholy (idiom); diversion from boredom
- to dispel depression or melancholy
- to relieve stress
- a relaxing pass-time
Trad. 怎一個愁字了得
- (last line of the poem 聲聲慢|声声慢[Sheng1 sheng1 Man4] by Song poet Li Qingzhao 李清照[Li3 Qing1 zhao4])
- how can it be expressed in one word, "sorrow"?
- how can words express such sadness?
Trad. 皇帝女兒不愁嫁
- lit. the emperor's daughter does not worry about whether she will be able to marry (idiom)
- fig. highly sought after