慘 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 痛ましい。
  2. そこなう。
  3. むごい。残忍である。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「心」+音符「參」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

sad, pitiful, wretched, cruel

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

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

Basics

Strokes
14 strokes
Radical
心(こころ)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+6158

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰忄參

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-11
Four Corner
9302.2
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4k8.5
Nelson
1744