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.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 3 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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他们会害惨你。
They'll kill you.
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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.
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这个故事有一个悲惨的结局。
This story has a sad ending.
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这种人注定惨败。
Such a man is bound to fail.