📖 Meaning
Describes someone whose feelings are rich and tender, easily stirred or saddened by things. Such a person responds deeply to the world and is quick to feel joy, pity, or melancholy.
📜 Origin Story
The phrase comes from a line by the Tang dynasty poet Lu Guimeng in his collection 'Thirty Poems to Amuse Myself' (《自遣诗三十首》): '多情善感自难忘，只有风流共古长' ('Richly feeling and easily moved, one cannot forget; only romance endures as long as antiquity'). Lu Guimong was a late Tang recluse-poet, and the line voices his sentimental, brooding temperament. Over time the phrase was lifted from the poem and used on its own to describe an emotionally sensitive, easily saddened nature.
💡 Example Usage
她生性多情善感，见落花满地便忍不住暗自神伤。
She is by nature tender-hearted and easily moved; seeing the ground strewn with fallen petals, she cannot help but feel quietly sad.
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🔤 Quick Facts
- Chinese: 多情善感
- Pinyin: duō qíng shàn gǎn
- Literal Translation: much feeling, easily moved
- Category: Emotion
- Characters: 4