in English

cǎn adjective
miserable / wretched / cruel / inhuman / disastrous / tragic / dim / gloomy

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 慘, the traditional character: 惨 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 他们会害惨你。

    They'll kill you.

  • 我吃了一堆塔可钟,现在肚子拉得很惨。

    I ate a bunch of Taco Bell and now I have a serious case of the shits.

  • 这个故事有一个悲惨的结局。

    This story has a sad ending.

  • 这种人注定惨败。

    Such a man is bound to fail.

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