悔 (huǐ) — (bound form, in verbs and nouns) regret; repent — used in compounds like 后悔 and 悔改; (bound form, in Yijing) outer trigram of a hexagram
Definition
Bound morpheme meaning 'regret / repent.' It almost never stands alone — you'll meet it inside compounds like 后悔 (to regret) and 悔改 (to repent and change).
bound form
(bound form, in verbs and nouns) regretrepent — used in compounds like 后悔 and 悔改(bound form, in Yijing) outer trigram of a hexagram
Examples
- 。Wǒ cóng lái méi yǒu hòu huǐ guò zì jǐ de xuǎn zé.I have never regretted my choices.
- 。Tā duì zì jǐ shuō guò de huǎng huà gǎn dào ào huǐ.He felt remorse for the lies he told.
- ，。Zhǐ yào zhēn xīn huǐ gǎi, jiù hái yǒu jī huì.As long as you genuinely repent and change, there's still a chance.
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