pity, have mercy, sympathise, compassion
憐 centers on a heartfelt response to suffering: feeling pity, showing mercy, sympathizing, or acting with compassion.
憐 combines 忄 (heart/mind) with 粦, which likely contributes the sound レン and may have originally suggested a sense of pity or compassion.
The heart radical 忄 beside 粦 suggests a heart moved by the sight of suffering. Picture a compassionate heart reaching out to someone in need.
For レン, imagine a compassionate person lending a hand: lend -> レン, and the heart 忄 reaches out to help.
sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute
pity; compassion; mercy
lovable; sweet; charming
fellow sufferers pity each other
pity; compassion
sympathy
pity; mercy; compassion
compassion; pity
to pity (one another); to commiserate
youthful and endearing; rosy-cheeked and sweet
pure of heart and pretty
pure of heart and beautiful; innocent and beautiful
self-pity