The kanji 惨: meaning, readings and stroke order
惨
- Meaning
- cruel, miserable
- On reading
- サン san、ザン zan
- Kun reading
- みじ(め) mijime
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 心 heart
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
- Old form
- 慘
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- thảm, đáng thương (thảm)
- Japanese
- むごい。みじめ。
- Korean
- 참혹하다, 비참하다 (참)
- Chinese
- 悲惨、凄惨
Readings, words and example sentences
サン san · on reading · less common
惨事
terrible accident, disaster
大きな 惨事に なりました。
It turned into a terrible disaster.
ザン zan · on reading · less common
惨こく
cruel
惨こくな 場面は 見せません。
Cruel scenes are not shown.
みじ(め) mijime · kun reading · less common
惨め
miserable
負けて 惨めな 気持ちに なりました。
I lost and felt miserable.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.