哀惜

• (Tokyo) あいせき [àísékí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [a̠ise̞kʲi]

哀(あい)惜(せき) • (aiseki) ^{←あいせき (aiseki)?}

1. grief, sorrow, mournfulness
   • 1937, 火野葦平, 糞尿譚‎^[1], 青空文庫:

     […] 老(ろう)齢(れい)のため何(なに)かと修(しゅう)繕(ぜん)代(だい)の嵩(かさ)む自(じ)動(どう)車(しゃ)を一寸(ちょっと)怨(うら)めしそうに見(み)たが、もとよりそれは心(こころ)からの恨(うら)みでは毛(もう)頭(とう)なく寧(むし)ろ長(なが)い間(あいだ)、自(じ)分(ぶん)と苦(く)難(なん)を倶(とも)にして来(き)たために、こんなにも古(ふる)ぼけた傷(いた)ましい姿(すがた)になり果(は)てたトラックへの限(かぎ)りない哀(あい)惜(せき)のこころであった。

     […] rōrei no tame nani ka to shūzendai no kasamu jidōsha o chotto urameshisō ni mita ga, moto yori sore wa kokoro kara no urami de wa mōtō naku mushiro nagai aida, jibun to kunan o tomo ni shite kita tame ni, konna ni mo furuboketa itamashii sugata ni narihateta torakku e no kagiri nai aiseki no kokoro de atta.

     […] he looked somewhat scornfully at the automobile, whose repair costs had been mounting because of its old age, but of course what he felt was not at all genuine contempt but rather a feeling of profound sorrow for his truck, which had been reduced to such a worn-out, pitiful state from going through hardships with him for so long.

哀(あい)惜(せき)する • (aiseki suru) ^{←あいせき (aiseki)?}transitive suru (stem 哀(あい)惜(せき)し (aiseki shi), past 哀(あい)惜(せき)した (aiseki shita))

1. to grieve, to feel sorrow for, to mourn

• “哀惜”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026