慘 (cǎn)
miserable/tragic/badly
How 慘 is written
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 忄 — heart
- Traditional
- 慘
- Simplified
- 惨
Components
- 忄 heart
- 厽 N/A
- 人 human
- 彡 bristle/beard
Common words using 慘
- 慘遭 cǎnzāo
- suffer
- 悲慘 bēicǎn
- miserable; tragic
- 悽慘 qīcǎn
- plaintive; mournful; miserable
- 慘不忍睹 cǎnbùrěndǔ
- spectacle too horrible to endure (idiom); tragic sight; appalling scenes of devastation
- 慘淡 cǎndàn
- dark; gloomy; dismal
- 慘烈 cǎnliè
- bitter; desperate
- 慘事 cǎnshì
- disaster
- 慘劇 cǎnjù
- tragedy; calamity; atrocity
- 慘叫 cǎnjiào
- to scream; blood-curdling screech; miserable shriek
- 慘境 cǎnjìng
- wretched situation
- 慘敗 cǎnbài
- to suffer a crushing defeat
- 慘案 cǎnàn
- massacre; tragedy; CL:起[qi3]
慘 in a sentence
這次考試我考得很慘。
Zhè cì kǎoshì wǒ kǎo de hěn cǎn.
“I did terribly on this exam.”
How common is 慘?
慘 is the 1,528th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 94.8% of all running text.
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