"Bleak" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 暗淡 | àn dàn | dark / dim (light) / dull (color) / drab / (fig.) gloomy / bleak |   |
| 萧条 | xiāo tiáo | bleak / desolate / (economic) depression or slump | |
| 苍凉 | cāng liáng | desolate / bleak | |
| 萧瑟 | xiāo sè | to rustle in the air / to rustle / to sough / bleak / desolate / chilly | |
| 堪忧 | kān yōu | worrying / bleak | |
| 萧索 | xiāo suǒ | bleak / desolate / melancholy | |
| 凄苦 | qī kǔ | bleak / miserable | |
| 凄 |  qī | intense cold / frigid / dismal / grim / bleak / sad / mournful | |
| 黪 | cǎn | dark / dim / gloomy / bleak | |
| 凄风苦雨 | qī fēng kǔ yǔ | lit. bleak wind and icy rain (idiom) / fig. hardships / miserable circumstances | |
