慘

See also 惨

Translingual

Han character

慘 (radical 61 心+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 心戈戈竹 (PIIH), four-corner 9302₂, composition ⿰忄參)

1. sad, pitiful, wretched
2. cruel

References

• KangXi: page 398, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11094
• Dae Jaweon: page 738, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2348, character 11
• Unihan data for U+6158

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Cantonese

Hanzi

慘 (simplified 惨, jyutping caam2, Yale chaam2)

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Japanese

Kanji

慘

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

慘 (thảm, thom, thỏm)