伤感
shāng gǎn · HSK 7
sentimental
😢 伤 shāng = wound/hurt + 感 gǎn = feeling: a wounded feeling, i.e. sad and sentimental
伤 means injury or to hurt, and 感 means to feel or sense (as in 感觉). Together a wounded feeling: melancholy, sentimental, touched by sadness.
伤 — person radical 亻 + 㿝 (phonetic)
伤 is the simplified form of 傷. It combines the person radical 亻, indicating a human being affected, with a phonetic component derived from 昜. The original sense was a wound or injury to a person, which extended to mean 'to hurt,' 'injury,' and figuratively 'to grieve' or 'sorrow.'
感 — heart 心 + 咸 (xián, phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The heart radical 心 at the bottom carries the meaning of feeling or emotion, while 咸 supplies the sound. Together 感 conveys being moved in the heart, hence 'to feel,' 'sense,' or 'be affected by' something.