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悲痛

bēi tòng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

悲痛 (bēi tòng) means "grieved; sorrowful". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 悲痛 means

1. grieved
2. sorrowful

The characters in 悲痛

• 悲bēisad; sadness; sorrow
• 痛tòngache; pain; sorrow

Example sentences

• 语言不能减轻她的悲痛。
  No words can relieve her deep sorrow.
• 这表明幸福和悲痛之间只隔着看法。
  Zhè biǎomíng xìngfú hé bēitòng zhījiān zhǐ gé zhe kànfǎ.
  This shows that happiness and sadness are only separated by attitude.
• 他还没有从妻子去世的悲痛中恢复过来。
  He hasn't got over the death of his wife yet.
• 我一想到那些在战争中死去的人，心里就感到一阵阵的悲痛。
  Wǒ yī xiǎngdào nàxiē zài zhànzhēng zhōng sǐqù de rén, xīn lǐ jiù gǎndào yīzhèn zhèn de bēitòng.
  I feel sad when I think about all the people who die in wars.

Words starting with 悲痛

• 悲痛欲绝bēi tòng yù jué(idiom) to be overcome with grief

Sounds the same

Read bēi tòng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 悲恸mournful

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