惨
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miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 心 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 慘
- Common rank
- #1,690
- Unicode
- U+60E8
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
wretched · Heisig RSH #1309
state of mind + brawl
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 惨
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 惨无人道 | inhuman (idiom); brutal and unfeeling | |
| 四一二惨案 | the massacre of 12th Mar 1927; the Shanghai coup of 12th Mar 1927 by Chiang Kai-shek again… | |
| 伤心惨目 | (idiom) too appalling to look at | |
| 惨白 | deathly pale | |
| 惨事 | disaster | |
| 悲惨世界 | Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果|维克多·雨果[Wei2 ke4 duo1 · Yu3 guo3] | |
| 惨红 | dark red | |
| 惨重 | disastrous | |
| 惨淡经营 | to manage by painstaking effort (idiom) | |
| 惨死 | to die tragically; to meet with a violent death | |
| 惨然 | grieved; distressed | |
| 惨不忍闻 | (idiom) dreadful to hear | |
| 惨变 | calamitous turn of events; (of one's complexion) to change markedly due to shock, illness … | |
| 惨毒 | cruel; vicious | |
| 绿惨红愁 | (of women) grieved appearance (idiom); sorrowful mien | |
| 惨杀 | to slaughter; to kill mercilessly | |
| 惨笑 | bitter smile | |
| 惨状 | devastation; miserable condition | |
| 惨案 | massacre; tragedy; CL:起[qi3] | |
| 卖惨 | (coll.) to play up one's misfortune to gain sympathy; to fish for pity |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 参 — compare how they read.