"Plaintive" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 凄惨 | qī cǎn | plaintive / mournful / miserable |   |
| 哀怨 | āi yuàn | grief / resentment / aggrieved / plaintive | |
| 哀鸿遍野 | āi hóng biàn yě | lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom) / fig. land swarming with disaster victims / starving people fill the land | |
| 哀艳 | āi yàn | plaintive and beautiful / melancholy but gorgeous | |
| 悲啼 | bēi tí | to wail with grief / plaintive cry | |
| 八声杜鹃 | bā shēng dù juān | (bird species of China) plaintive cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus) | |
