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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

心痛

xīntòng

to feel distressed about sth

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to feel distressed about sth

02

heartache

03

cardiac pain

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 心痛 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 心痛 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我心痛。wǒ xīn tòng。

My heart is in pain.

我觉得心痛。wǒ jué de xīn tòng。

I feel heartache.

今天晚上,我想到了她在美国过去一百年间所经历的种种:心痛和希望;斗争和进步;在那里时代,我们被告知我们办不到,一些人继续坚信着美国的信念——是的,我们能做到。jīn tiān wǎn shàng, wǒ xiǎng dào le tā zài měi guó guò qù yì bǎi nián jiān suǒ jīng lì de zhǒng zhǒng: xīn tòng hé xī wàng; dòu zhēng hé jìn bù; zài nà lǐ shí dài, wǒ men bèi gào zhī wǒ men bàn bú dào, yī xiē rén jì xù jiān xìn zhe měi guó de xìn niàn —— shì de, wǒ men néng zuò dào。

And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America. The heartache and the hope, the struggle and the progress. The times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes, we can.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 心痛.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 心痛.

Directly before

  • 觉得心痛1
  • 我心痛1

Directly after

  • 心痛和1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 心痛

What does 心痛 mean in Chinese?

心痛 (xīntòng) means to feel distressed about sth.

How do you pronounce 心痛?

心痛 is pronounced xīntòng.

Is 心痛 an HSK word?

心痛 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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