一掬同情之淚

to shed tears of sympathy (idiom)

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

to hold in one's hands / classifier for a double handful / Taiwan pr. [ju2]

like / same / similar / together / alike / with

see 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]

to sympathize with / sympathy

feeling / emotion / passion / situation

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]) / him / her / it

tears