悲

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sad

On-Yomi: ヒ — Kun-Yomi: かな.しい、かな.しむ

Koohii stories:

1) [Johnnyltn] 20-9-2006(190): Saddness is like having your heart captured and jailed because of some sad or terrible event, etc. Here the sad heart waits for someone to come and un-lock their jail cell and set them free again.

2) [rgravina] 21-8-2006(74): Stuck in a jail cell with his heart crying out to see his family again, the prisoner has never felt so sad.

3) [radical_tyro] 9-7-2007(48): A jail cell will make any heart sad.

4) [mcbainpc] 19-8-2008(24): For some reason, this kanji makes me think of some Toni Braxton song, but I change the lyrics to "Un-jail my heart". Now that mnemonic has stuck in my head.

5) [sgrant] 23-12-2008(9): Imagine the sad image of a prisoner in a jail cell feeling sad as he looks at all the little hearts his daughter used to draw for him when she was just a child. Now she wants nothing to do with him.

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