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惨

惨 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Origin of the character

「慘」の略体（「參」→「参」の類推）。「慘」については慘#字源の項目を参照。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

wretched, disaster, cruelty, harsh

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • サンJHS
  • ザンHS
Kun (native)
  • みじ(め)HS
  • いた(む)
  • むご(い)
Other languages
  • 拼音can3
  • 拼音can4
  • 한글cham
  • 한글chim
  • Hán-ViệtThảm
  • Hán-ViệtThom

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
11 strokes
Radical
心(こころ)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+60E8

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰忄参

Words using this kanji

  • 惨事さんじ惨たらしく、痛ましい出来事。disaster, tragedy, tragic incident, horrible accident
  • 惨敗ざんぱい惨めな敗北。惨憺たる負け方。 惨めな敗北をする。惨憺たる負け方をする。ignominious defeat, crushing failure, utterly beaten, overwhelming defeat
  • 惨状さんじょう惨たらしい状態や状況。disastrous scene, terrible spectacle
  • 惨めみじめみじめを参照。miserable, wretched, unhappy, sad
  • 惨禍さんかcalamity, disaster, catastrophe
  • 惨劇さんげき悲惨な筋書きの演劇。転じて、悲惨な出来事。tragedy, tragic event
  • 惨殺ざんさつ惨たらしい方法で殺害すること。slaughter, massacre
  • 惨さんみじめなさま。appalling
  • 惨いむごいむごいを参照。cruel, merciless, pitiless, brutal
  • 惨害さんがい悲惨な被害。むごたらしい災害。heavy damage, havoc, ravages
  • 惨死ざんし惨たらしい死に方をすること。tragic death, violent death
  • 惨落さんらくslump, sudden fall of market price
  • 惨憺さんたん嘆かわしく痛ましいこと。 さまざまに思い悩むこと。 嘆かわしく痛ましい。miserable, pitiful, tragic, wretched
  • 惨烈さんれつ非常に惨たらしいこと。非常に厳しいこと。また、そのようなさま。horrible, cruel, atrocious
  • 惨酷さんこくatrocity, cruelty, brutality
  • 惨苦さんくterrible pain, terrible hardship, terrible suffering
  • 惨況さんきょう悲惨な状況。惨状。wretched state, pitiable condition
  • 惨話さんわheartbreaking story, tragic tale
  • 惨死体ざんしたいcorpse of a person who has met a violent death
  • 惨殺者ざんさつしゃbrutal murderer

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(31 results)

Similar-looking kanji

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-8
Four Corner
9302.2
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4k8.5
Heisig
1857
Nelson
1713