| kū | to cry/to weep |
| 哭 | to cry to weep |
| 哭丧 | to wail at a funeral formal wailing while offering sacrifice to the departed |
| 哭丧棒 | mourning staff draped in white, held at a funeral to show filial piety |
| 哭丧着脸 | sullen to scowl miserably |
| 哭丧脸 | to pull a long face sullen also written 哭喪著臉|哭丧着脸 |
| 哭叫 | To cry |
| 哭哭啼啼 | to weep endlessly interminable wailing |
| 哭喊 | cry and shout; crying and shouting |
| 哭墙 | Wailing Wall, or Western Wall (Jerusalem) |
| 哭声 | sound of weeping |
| 哭声震天 | lit. cries of grief shake the heavens great sorrow (idiom) |
| 哭天抹泪 | to wail and whine piteous weeping |
| 哭泣 | to weep |
| 哭灵 | to weep before a coffin or a memorial to the dead |
| 哭秋风 | autumnal sadness |
| 哭穷 | to bewail one's poverty to complain about being hard up to pretend to be poor |
| 哭笑不得 | lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom); both funny and extremely embarrassing in a desperate state between laughter and tears |
| 哭脸 | to weep to snivel |
| 哭腔 | dirge opera tune portraying mourning voice hear between sobs |
| 哭诉 | to lament to complain tearfully to wail accusingly |