惻そく隠いんの情じょう

noun

compassion; pity; sympathy

A literary or formal term for the feeling of compassion or pity, often used in philosophical or classical contexts. Rare in everyday conversation.

• 惻そく隠いんの情じょうは、孟もう子しの説とく四し端たんの一ひとつである。

  Compassion is one of the Four Beginnings taught by Mencius.

• 彼かれの話はなしを聞きいて、自し然ぜんと惻そく隠いんの情じょうが湧わいた。

  Hearing his story, a feeling of pity naturally welled up.