noun
Rare literary term for deep grief or sorrow. Not used in everyday speech; modern Japanese prefers 悲しみ or 悲哀.
古典文学では「憂戚」が深い悲しみを表す語として使われることがある。
In classical literature, 憂戚 is sometimes used as a word expressing deep grief.
A somewhat literary but still current word for sorrow or pathos; more common than 憂戚.
Rare kanji form; the variant 憂慼 is also recorded but extremely uncommon.
Variant kanji form; even rarer than 憂戚.
Composed of 憂 (grief, worry) and 戚 (sorrow, mourn). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the spelling is conventionally associated with deep sorrow.