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shocking, dreadful, or ominous

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Example Sentences

Real-world example sentences demonstrating how is used in context
1
zhí
bǎi
tuō
è
yùn
de
jiū
chán

He has been unable to escape the entanglement of misfortune.

2
shōu
dào
le
péng
yǒu
shì
de
è
hào

He received the bad news of his friend's death.

3
zuó
wǎn
zuò
le
de
è
mèng

I had a terrible nightmare last night.

4
tīng
dào
le
è
hào

I heard some bad news.

5
jīn
tiān
zǎo
shàng
men
shōu
dào
le
è
hào
shuō
shēng
bìng
le

This morning, we received some bad news that grandpa is sick.

6
è
hào
chuán
lái
zhěng
shè
dōu
chén
jìn
zài
bēi
tòng
zhī
zhōng

When the bad news came, the whole community was immersed in grief.

Information

Traditional
Radical
Strokes16
StructureSingle Body
Frequency#2107
Zhuyinㄜˋ
Components
UnicodeU+5669
CangjieMGRR
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Cultural note

Traditional Chinese culture often connects characters and names with the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) and Yin–Yang, a system also used to describe personality tendencies.

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