cǎn

sad, pitiful, wretched; cruel

HSK 6 #1530

DEFINITIONS

  • sad, pitiful, wretched
  • cruel
  • miserable
  • wretched
  • cruel
  • inhuman
  • disastrous
  • tragic
  • dim
  • gloomy

STROKES

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WORDS

bēi cǎn miserable; tragic
剧 cǎn jù tragedy; calamity; atrocity
重 cǎn zhòng disastrous
遭 cǎn zāo to suffer (defeat, death etc)
不忍睹 cǎn bù rěn dǔ spectacle too horrible to endure (idiom); tragic sight; appalling scenes of devastation
叫 cǎn jiào to scream; blood-curdling screech; miserable shriek
败 cǎn bài to suffer a crushing defeat
痛 cǎn tòng bitter; painful; deeply distressed
死 cǎn sǐ to die tragically; to meet with a violent death
qī cǎn plaintive; mournful; miserable
案 cǎn àn massacre; tragedy; CL:起[qi3]
烈 cǎn liè bitter; desperate
无人道 cǎn wú rén dào inhuman (idiom); brutal and unfeeling
绝人寰 cǎn jué rén huán extremely tragic (idiom); with unprecedented brutality
淡 cǎn dàn dark; gloomy; dismal; by painstaking effort
状 cǎn zhuàng devastation; miserable condition
白 cǎn bái deathly pale
祸 cǎn huò terrible tragedy; grave mishap
淡经营 cǎn dàn jīng yíng to manage by painstaking effort (idiom)
杀 cǎn shā to slaughter; to kill mercilessly
变 cǎn biàn disastrous turn; tragic event
伤心目 shāng xīn cǎn mù (idiom) too appalling to look at
四一二案 sì yī èr cǎn àn the massacre of 12th Mar 1927; the Shanghai coup of 12th Mar 1927 by Chiang Kai-shek against the communists
世界 bēi cǎn shì jiè Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果|维克多·雨果[Wei2 ke4 duo1 · Yu3 guo3]
不忍闻 cǎn bù rěn wén too horrible to endure (idiom); tragic spectacle; appalling scenes of devastation
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