惨 (cǎn): meaning and stroke order
惨 (cǎn) means miserable, wretched, cruel, inhuman, disastrous, tragic, dim, gloomy.
惨
- Simplified
- 惨
- Traditional
- 慘
- Pinyin
- cǎn
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Stroke order of 惨
惨
- cǎn miserable; wretched
- 11 strokes
- Traditional form: 慘
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Meaning of 惨
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cǎn
Traditional 慘
- miserable
- wretched
- cruel
- inhuman
- disastrous
- tragic
- dim
- gloomy
Radical and structure
- 惨
- Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 11 strokes · 忄 on the left, 参 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 惨
- 惨烈 cǎn liè bitter; desperate
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).