See How Fast You Can Learn Chinese

Try our interactive spaced repetition demo—study your first words in 60 seconds

Interactive demo Takes 60 seconds No sign-up needed

Studying for the HSK? Don't like subscriptions? Try our one-time HSK Study Access package for $9.99 (PPP available).

Learn More

chóu
HSK 3.0 Level 5

Sign in to save this word to your study lists.

Definitions

  1. 1. to worry about

Words Containing 愁

穷愁潦倒
qióng chóu liáo dǎo

impoverished and dejected; wretched and penniless

愁肠百结
chóu cháng bǎi jié

hundred knots of worry in one's intestines (idiom); weighed down with anxiety

愁眉不展
chóu méi bù zhǎn

with a worried frown

虱子多了不痒,债多了不愁
shī zi duō le bù yǎng , zhài duō le bù chóu

lit. covered with lice, one doesn't feel the itching anymore; up to one's ears in debt, one ceases to worry about it (idiom)

多愁多病
duō chóu duō bìng

much sorrows and illness (idiom); melancholy and weakly

愁苦
chóu kǔ

anxiety

消愁解闷
xiāo chóu jiě mèn

lit. to eliminate worry and dispel melancholy (idiom); diversion from boredom

借酒浇愁
jiè jiǔ jiāo chóu

to drown one's sorrows (in alcohol)

解愁
jiě chóu

to relieve melancholy

皇帝女儿不愁嫁
huáng dì nǚ ér bù chóu jià

lit. the emperor's daughter does not worry about whether she will be able to marry (idiom)

多愁善感
duō chóu shàn gǎn

melancholy and moody (idiom); depressed personality

哀愁
āi chóu

sorrow; sadness

犯愁
fàn chóu

to worry

绿惨红愁
lǜ cǎn hóng chóu

(of women) grieved appearance (idiom)

愁闷
chóu mèn

depressed

愁眉苦脸
chóu méi kǔ liǎn

to look anxious (idiom)

离愁
lí chóu

parting sorrow

忧愁
yōu chóu

to be worried

穷愁
qióng chóu

destitute

面带愁容
miàn dài chóu róng

with a sad air

乡愁
xiāng chóu

homesickness

怎一个愁字了得
zěn yī gè chóu zì liǎo dé

(last line of the poem 聲聲慢|声声慢[shēng shēng màn] by Song poet Li Qingzhao 李清照[lǐ qīng zhào])

发愁
fā chóu

to worry

愁绪
chóu xù

melancholy

悲愁
bēi chóu

melancholy

愁肠
chóu cháng

anxiety