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When
you know someone who has suffered some
personal misfortune or setback, you show
your sympathy to them, giving them comfort
in a time of hurt, anguish or suffering.
By your act of sympathy you are “seeing”
their pain with your heart, and this feeling
of empathy and compassion is hen
jai. Noi’s wife has left
him, and he is miserable. He is your friend
and you hen
jai him and invite him out to
dinner in order to cheer him up. You feel
sympathy for his plight and hope the dinner
will take his mind off his troubles. Someone
who hen
jai another person sees the suffering
in their heart. Hen
òk hen jai is another
expression that is used to show a more
intense level of sympathy.
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