in English

intense cold / frigid / dismal / grim / bleak / sad / mournful

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 淒, the traditional character: 凄 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 我感到凄清与孤独。

    I felt sad and lonely.

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