哀哉

Chinese

		sorrow; grief; pity sorrow; grief; pity; to grieve for; to pity; to lament	(exclamatory or interrog. part.)
simp. and trad. (哀哉)		哀	哉

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	哀	哉	哉
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	āi	zāi	zāi
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔoj ›	‹ tsoj ›	‹ tsoj ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔˁəj/	/*[ts]ˁə/	/*[ts]ˁə/
English	to pity; sad	begin	(particle)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

哀哉

(Classical Chinese) How sad!
- 哀哉！死者而用生者之器。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]
  From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE
  Āizāi! Sǐzhě ér yòng shēngzhě zhī qì. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

For pronunciation and definitions of 哀哉 – see the following entry: かなしいかな

(The following entry is uncreated: かなしいかな.)

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