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pathetic

On-Yomi: アイ — Kun-Yomi: あわ.れ、あわ.れむ、かな.しい

Koohii stories:

1) [Asgard] 28-8-2006(188): One of my friends with a crazy sense of fashion loves to wear a tophat and a scarf so that you can't see his whole face but only his mouth. He thinks it's cool. I think it's pathetic.

2) [ihatobu] 9-8-2007(76): A poor, homeless child like Oliver Twist, with a hungry open mouth, is pathetic– in the original sense of the noun "pathos." The tattered tophat and scarf he wears only adds to the pathos.

3) [jwy2k2] 20-3-2007(36): Other definitions include grief, sorrow, pathos, pity, and sympathize. IMO the english word pathetic is often used nowadays to mean a sort of "contemptuous pity" but I think we need a more compasionate definition to understand 哀 , now and especially later when it starts being combined with other words…So, here's the top part of frame 308 享 (receive) but where the child was is now replaced by a scarf. Whatever fate befell the child is up to your imagination. grief, sorrow, pathos, sympathy, pathetic.

4) [Zarxrax] 8-4-2008(27): That tall guy with the scarf is just so pathetic! (I can't help but see "tall" when I look at this kanji).

5) [DeadLugosi] 26-8-2008(13): A hat, a mouth and a cloak, I think that's all that beggar owns. How pathetic!

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