Dictionary › 惨
惨
cǎn
What 惨 means
- miserable
- wretched
- cruel
- inhuman
- disastrous
- tragic
- dim
- gloomy
Example sentences
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他们会害惨你。They'll kill you.
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这种人注定惨败。Zhèzhǒng rén zhùdìng cǎnbài.That kind of person will fail for sure.
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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.
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我吃了一堆塔可钟，现在肚子拉得很惨。I ate a bunch of Taco Bell and now I have a serious case of the shits.
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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 惨
- 惨叫cǎn jiàoto scream; blood-curdling screech; miserable shriek
- 惨遭cǎn zāoto suffer (defeat, death etc)
- 惨白cǎn báideathly pale
- 惨案cǎn ànmassacre; tragedy
- 惨不忍睹cǎn bù rěn dǔlit. so horrible that one cannot bear to look (idiom); fig. miserable; horrendous…
- 惨重cǎn zhòngdisastrous
- 惨烈cǎn lièbitter; desperate
- 惨痛cǎn tòngbitter; painful; deeply distressed
- 惨剧cǎn jùtragedy; calamity; atrocity
- 惨淡cǎn dàndark; gloomy; dismal
- 惨死cǎn sǐto die tragically; to meet with a violent death
- 惨败cǎn bàito suffer a crushing defeat
- 惨状cǎn zhuàngdevastation; miserable condition
- 惨无人道cǎn wú rén dàoinhuman (idiom); brutal and unfeeling
- 惨绝人寰cǎn jué rén huánextremely tragic (idiom); with unprecedented brutality
- 惨事cǎn shìdisaster
- 惨境cǎn jìngwretched situation
- 惨景cǎn jǐngwretched sight
- 惨杀cǎn shāto slaughter; to kill mercilessly
- 惨毒cǎn dúcruel; vicious
- 惨况cǎn kuàngtragic situation; dreadful state
- 惨然cǎn rángrieved; distressed
- 惨笑cǎn xiàobitter smile
- 惨红cǎn hóngdark red
Words containing 惨
- 悲惨bēi cǎnmiserable; tragic
- 凄惨qī cǎnplaintive; mournful; miserable
- 卖惨mài cǎn(colloquial) to play up one's misfortune to gain sympathy; to fish for pity
- 伤心惨目shāng xīn cǎn mù(idiom) too appalling to look at
- 悲惨世界Bēi cǎn Shì jièLes Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo 維克多·维克多·雨果
- 绿惨红愁lǜ cǎn hóng chóu(of women) grieved appearance (idiom); sorrowful mien
- 四一二惨案sì yī èr cǎn ànthe massacre of 12th Mar 1927; the Shanghai coup of 12th Mar 1927 by Chiang Kai-shek…
Characters that look like 惨
Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.
- 渗shènto seep; to ooze; to horrify
- 悟wùto comprehend; to apprehend; to become aware
- 倦juàntired; weary; fatigued
- 掺chānto mix; to blend; to dilute; to adulterate
- 傣DǎiDai ethnic group
- 偻lóuused in 佝偻; used in 偻㑩
Sounds the same
Read cǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.
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