sorrowful

Grieving for a dead brother also provides the pronunciation

Components
戚 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

battle-axe, sorrow, grief, relative

心 meaning component

  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

Evolution

慼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
慼 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
慼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

sorrowful, mournful; sorrow

() 

variant of [qī]; grief

Most common words with 慼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

亲戚

a relative (i.e. family relation)

relative

走亲戚

to visit relatives

戚戚

intimate

休戚相关

to be closely related