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Usage of the character 淒

[淒]
  • intense cold
  • frigid
  • dismal
  • grim
  • bleak
  • sad
  • mournful
qīliáng
凄凉
[淒涼]
  • desolate (place)
qīhuáng
凄惶
[淒惶]
  • distressed and terrified
  • distraught (literary)
qīqīng
凄清
[淒清]
  • somber; cheerless
qīqī
凄凄
[淒淒]
  • cold and dismal
qīhán
凄寒
[淒寒]
  • cold and desolate
qīlì
凄厉
[淒厲]
  • mournful (sound)
qī'àn
凄黯
[淒黯]
  • dismal
  • somber
  • also written 淒暗/凄暗 (qī'àn)
qī'àn
凄暗
[淒暗]
  • dismal
  • somber
qīměi
凄美
[淒美]
  • poignant
  • sad and beautiful
qīqiè
凄切
[淒切]
  • mournful
qīwǎn
凄婉
[淒婉]
  • melancholy
  • moving and sad
  • sweet and piteous
qīwǎn
凄惋
[淒惋]
  • doleful
  • piteous
  • also written 淒婉/凄婉 (qīwǎn)
qīmí
凄迷
[淒迷]
  • dreary and fuzzy (sight)
fēngyǔqīqī
风雨凄凄
[風雨淒淒]
  • wretched wind and rain
qīfēngkǔyǔ
凄风苦雨
[淒風苦雨]
  • lit. bleak wind and icy rain (idiom)
  • fig. hardships; miserable circumstances