Meaning
哀れむ (あわれむ, awaremu) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “pity; sympathize”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 9
誰もがその男を哀れんだ
Everyone pitied the man.
彼らあわれむ者もいた。
Some pitied them.
人々はその孤児を哀れんだ。
People took pity on the orphan.
この俳優の末路はまことに哀れむべきものであった.
The actor's last days were truly pitiful.
宗教は、自暴自棄になった移民達を哀れんで助けを与えた。
The bishop took pity on the desperate immigrants.
司教は、自暴自棄になった移民たちを哀れんで助けを与えた。
The bishop felt pity for the immigrants who were abandoned, and gave them help.
彼はえらそうな顔をして,「彼らの無知は哀れむべきものだ」と言った.
He said superciliously, “Their ignorance is to be pitied."
《諺》不幸な目にあうと見知らぬ同士が手を結び合う,「同病相哀れむ」.
Adversity [Misery] makes strange bedfellows.
團十郎は口上でも「弱きを助け孤独を哀れむ皆様方のお引き立てを」と述べ、劇中の工藤の台詞「その面差し、ハテ誰やらに似たわ、似たわ」のときには團十郎の眼に涙が光っていたという。
For the stage announcement, Danjuro asked the audience for 'their favor and patronage for the weak and the orphaned,' and during the play when he says Kudo's line 'I wonder, your faces, who did you take them after?,' it is said he had tears in his eyes.