怎一个愁字了得
Traditional form:
怎一個愁字了得
Pinyin (reading):
zěnyīgèchóuzìliǎodé
Definitions:
- (last line of the poem 聲聲慢／声声慢 ( Shēngshēng Màn) by Song poet Li Qingzhao 李清照 ( Lǐ Qīngzhào))
- how can it be expressed in one word, "sorrow"?
- how can words express such sadness?
Characters:
- 怎 - what? why? how?
- 一 - one; a, an; alone
- 个 - this, that; single; measure word for individuals
- 愁 - anxious, worried
- 字 - character, letter, symbol, word
- 了 - clear; to finish; particle of completed action
- 得 - to obtain, to get, to acquire; suitable, proper; ready
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