憂心忡忡

See also: 忧心忡忡

Chinese

		worried mind; troubled heart; to be worried worried mind; troubled heart; to be worried; to be concerned	worried; laden with anxiety; drooping
trad. (憂心忡忡)		憂心	忡忡
simp. (忧心忡忡)		忧心	忡忡

Occurred a few times in the Classic of Poetry, for example, in poem 14 (《詩經·召南·草蟲》):

喓喓草蟲，趯趯阜螽。
未見君子，憂心忡忡。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]

喓喓草虫，趯趯阜螽。
未见君子，忧心忡忡。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

Yāoyāo cǎochóng, yuèyuè fùzhōng.
Wèi jiàn jūnzǐ, yōuxīn chōngchōng. [Pinyin]

Yao-yao went the grass-insects, And the hoppers sprang about.
While I do not see my lord, My sorrowful heart is agitated.

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔ(r)u səm tʰruŋ tʰruŋ/

(Zhengzhang): /*qu slɯm tʰuŋ tʰuŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	憂	心	忡
Reading #	1/1	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yōu	xīn	chōng
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjuw ›	‹ sim ›	‹ trhjuwng ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔ(r)u/	/*səm/	/*tʰruŋ/
English	grief, grieved	heart	grieved, agitated
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

憂心忡忡