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残

cán

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 6 Character Traditional 殘

What 残 means

1. to destroy
2. to spoil
3. to ruin
4. to injure
5. cruel
6. oppressive
7. savage
8. brutal
9. incomplete
10. disabled
11. to remain
12. to survive
13. remnant
14. surplus

Example sentences

• 箱子残破。
  Xiāngzi cánpò.
  The box is broken.
• 太残忍了。
  That's very cruel.
• 汤姆有残疾。
  Tāngmǔ yǒu cánjí.
  Tom is handicapped.
• 同类不相残。
  Tónglèi bù xiāng cán.
  A dog does not eat a dog.
• 怪物的笑容很残忍。
  Guàiwu de xiàoróng hěn cánrěn.
  The monster's smile was cruel.
• 妈妈有一张残缺的脸。
  Māma yǒu yī zhāng cánquē de liǎn.
  Mama had a crippled face.

Words starting with 残

• 残疾cán jídisabled; handicapped; deformity on a person or animal
• 残酷cán kùcruel; harsh; merciless
• 残忍cán rěncruel; merciless; ruthless
• 残留cán liúto remain; to be left over; residual; remnant; residue
• 残疾人cán jí réndisabled person
• 残暴cán bàobrutal; vicious; ruthless
• 残缺cán quēbadly damaged; shattered
• 残废cán fèideformity; handicapped
• 残存cán cúnto survive; remnant
• 残害cán hàito injure; to devastate; to slaughter
• 残余cán yúremnant; relic; residue
• 残破cán pòbroken; dilapidated
• 残骸cán háiremains; wreckage
• 残杀cán shāto massacre; to slaughter
• 残月cán yuèwaning moon
• 残局cán júendgame (in chess); desperate situation; aftermath (of a failure)
• 残渣cán zhāremainder; filtered out residue; sediment
• 残值cán zhíresidual value
• 残品cán pǐndefective goods
• 残奥Cán ÀoParalympics; same as Paralympic Games 残奥会
• 残影cán yǐng(physiology) afterimage; (photography) motion blur; (computer screen) ghosting…
• 残念cán niàn(colloquial) to regret; what a pity! (loanword from Japanese "zannen")
• 残本cán běnextant fragment (of book)
• 残次cán cìdefective; inferior in quality

Words containing 残

• 摧残cuī cánto ravage; to ruin
• 凶残xiōng cánsavage; cruel; fierce
• 伤残shāng cándisabled; maimed; crippled
• 致残zhì cánto be crippled (in an accident etc)
• 苟延残喘gǒu yán cán chuǎn(idiom) to struggle on whilst at death's door
• 自残zì cánto mutilate oneself; self-harm
• 助残zhù cánto help people with disabilities
• 手残shǒu cán(colloquial) klutz
• 病残bìng cánsick or disabled; invalid; disability
• 脑残nǎo cánmoronic; brainless; bonehead
• 农残nóng cánpesticide residue (abbr. for 农药残留
• 长残zhǎng cán(slang) to grow up unattractive; to lose one's looks as one grows older
• 中国残联Zhōng guó Cán liánChina Disabled Persons' Federation (abbr. for 中国残疾人联合会
• 了此残生liǎo cǐ cán shēngto live out the rest of one's life
• 保残守缺bǎo cán shǒu quēconservative; to preserve the outmoded
• 伤残人员shāng cán rén yuánthe injured; wounded personnel
• 老残游记Lǎo Cán Yóu jìThe Travels of Lao Tsan, novel by late Qing novelist Liu E 刘鹗
• 自相残杀zì xiāng cán shāto massacre one another (idiom); internecine strife
• 抱残守缺bào cán shǒu quēto cherish the outmoded and preserve the outworn (idiom); conservative…
• 脑残粉nǎo cán fěn(slang) fanboy; fangirl
• 骨肉相残gǔ ròu xiāng cánclose kindred slaughter one another (idiom); internecine strife
• 冬残奥会Dōng Cán ào huìWinter Paralympics
• 灰岩残丘huī yán cán qiūmogote (steep-sided pointed hill in karst landform)
• 败柳残花bài liǔ cán huābroken flower, withered willow (idiom); fig. fallen woman

Characters built on 戋

These share the phonetic component 戋 (jiān), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 栈zhàna wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle; wood or bamboo trestlework; a warehouse
• 盏zhǎna small cup; classifier for lamps

Characters that look like 残

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 线xiànthread; string; wire
• 钱qiáncoin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 两
• 栈zhàna wooden or bamboo pen for sheep or cattle; wood or bamboo trestlework; a warehouse
• 贱jiàninexpensive; lowly; despicable
• 哉zāi(exclamatory or interrogative particle)
• 绉zhòucrepe; wrinkle

Sounds the same

Read cán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 惭ashamed
• 蚕silkworm

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cán correctly.
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