怜lián
to pity, to sympathize with. 8 strokes, radical 忄, first met in HSK 5.
Pinyin liánStrokes 8Radical 忄Band HSK 5Words 1
How to write 怜
Strokes 1–3 write 忄, then strokes 4–8 write 令.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 怜 · the stroke-order rules
What 怜 is made of
忄 (xīn, heart) and 令 (lìng, command).
忄 carries the meaning — heart — and 令 carries the sound.
Words that use 怜
| 可怜 | pitiful, poor, deserving sympathy 形容令人同情怜悯的境况 大家看到走失的可怜流浪犬。Everyone saw the poor, lost stray dog. Lesson 448, 和乐致祥 · 文武兼修与科学攻坚 · Cultural Elegance & Scientific Frontiers |
Characters that share the sound part 令
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 忄
All 61 of them, and what the radical means, on the 心 radical page.