惨

See also 慘

Translingual

Han character

惨 (radical 61 心+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 心戈大竹 (PIKH))

1. sad, pitiful, wretched
2. cruel

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 392, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10850
• Dae Jaweon: page 728, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2320, character 1
• Unihan data for U+60E8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

惨 (traditional 慘, Yale chaam2)

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Japanese

Kanji

惨 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: さん (san), ざん (zan)
• Kun: みじめ (mijime), いたむ (itamu)

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Korean

Hanja

惨 (hangeul 참, 침, revised cham, chim, McCune-Reischauer ch'am, ch'im, Yale cham, chim)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

惨 (traditional 慘, pinyin cǎn (can3), Wade-Giles ts'an³)