cǎn
sad
Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 參 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 慘
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
miserable | ||
miserable | ||
disastrous | ||
to scream | ||
to suffer a crushing defeat |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 24.9720% of movies
1448th most common character in movies
1530th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6158 |
Shuowen | “慘，毒也。从心，參聲。” |
Sources
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