可憐蟲

可憐蟲

1. (endearing or derogatory) miserable wretch

   • 男兒可憐蟲，出門懷死憂。深山解谷口，白骨無人收。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     男儿可怜虫，出门怀死忧。深山解谷口，白骨无人收。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: 《樂府詩集·橫吹曲辭•企喻歌》, attributed to Fu Rong (d. 383) but more likely a 5^th or 6^th-century folk song in a Proto-Mongolic language and rendered into Chinese sometime later

     Nán'ér kěliánchóng, chūmén huái sǐyōu. Shēnshān xiègǔ kǒu, báigǔ wúrén shōu. [Pinyin]

     Woe is the pitiable male,
     As death is his sole care.
     When he is slaughtered in the vale,
     There his bones lay bare.
     (Translated by Wang Rongpei)