"Despair" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 失望 | shī wàng | disappointed / to lose hope / to despair |   |
| 绝望 | jué wàng | to despair / to give up all hope / desperate / desperation | |
| 泄气 | xiè qì | to leak (gas) / to be discouraged / to despair / (disparaging) pathetic / to vent one's anger / (of a tire) to be flat | |
| 怅 |  chàng | regretful / upset / despair / depressed | |
| 嗒 | tà | to despair | |
| 自暴自弃 | zì bào zì qì | to abandon oneself to despair / to give up and stop bothering | |
| 唉声叹气 | āi shēng tàn qì | sighing voice, wailing breath (idiom) / to heave deep sighs / to sigh in despair | |
| 灰心丧气 | huī xīn sàng qì | downhearted / downcast / in despair | |
| 仰屋兴叹 | yǎng wū xīng tàn | to stare at the ceiling in despair / to find no way out / nothing you can do about it / at the end of one's wits | |
| 胜不骄，败不馁 | shèng bù jiāo , bài bù něi | no arrogance in victory, no despair in defeat | |
| 天无绝人之路 | tiān wú jué rén zhī lù | Heaven never bars one's way (idiom) / don't despair and you will find a way through. / Never give up hope. / Never say die. | |
| 拊髀 | fǔ bì | to slap one's own buttocks in excitement or despair | |
| 绝望的遗产 | legacy of despair | |
