可憐な

• 読み: かれんな
• ローマ字: karenna
• 漢字の分解: 可 (ka) — good, worthy; 憐 (ren) — pity, compassion; な — attributive marker
• 発音: /ka.ɾen.na/

意味

Lovely yet pitiful; touchingly innocent; sweet and vulnerable. Emphasises the aspect of gentle sorrow and fragility that makes something both beautiful and heartbreaking.

The attributive na-form of 可憐, used directly before nouns. While 可憐 in predicative use (可憐だ) leans towards admiring beauty, 可憐な before a noun often highlights the pathos of fragility — evoking sympathy as much as admiration. Used in both contemporary literary writing and classical-style poetry.

例文

1. 可憐な子猫が雨の中で震えていた。
2. 彼は可憐な声で助けを求めたが、誰も気づかなかった。
3. 可憐な姿のまま散っていく桜の花びらが、儚さを象徴していた。

使い方ガイド

場面: literature, poetry, pathos, nature

トーン: melancholic

起源と歴史

Attributive form of 可憐 (lovely, pitiful), a Sino-Japanese compound of 可 (worthy) and 憐 (compassion/pity). The attributive form is especially common in literary prose where the fragility of beauty is the central theme.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Literary