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惨淡

cǎn dàn

2-character word Traditional 慘淡

What 惨淡 means

1. dark
2. gloomy
3. dismal
4. by painstaking effort

The characters in 惨淡

• 惨cǎnmiserable; wretched; cruel
• 淡dàninsipid; diluted; weak

Words starting with 惨淡

• 惨淡经营cǎn dàn jīng yíngto manage by painstaking effort (idiom)

Sounds the same

Read cǎn dàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 惨澹variant of 惨淡

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