Practice JLPTMeaning
哀れむ (あわれむ, awaremu) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “pity; sympathize”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 6
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.
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.
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.《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.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."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.…