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悲惨

bēi cǎn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 悲慘

悲惨 (bēi cǎn) means "miserable; tragic". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 悲惨 means

1. miserable
2. tragic

The characters in 悲惨

• 悲bēisad; sadness; sorrow
• 惨cǎnmiserable; wretched; cruel

Example sentences

• 这个故事有一个悲惨的结局。
  Zhège gùshi yǒu yī gè bēicǎn de jiéjú.
  This story has a sad ending.
• 幸福家庭的幸福原因全都大同小异，但悲惨的家庭却往往各自有各自的惨法。
  Xìngfú jiātíng de xìngfú yuányīn quán dōu dàtóng-xiǎoyì, dàn bēicǎn de jiātíng què wǎngwǎng gèzì yǒu gèzì de cǎn fǎ.
  All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Words starting with 悲惨

• 悲惨世界Bēi cǎn Shì jièLes Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo 維克多·维克多·雨果

Where 悲惨 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · bēi–běn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bēi cǎn correctly.
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