惨
cǎn HSK6

sad

惨 慘 cǎn
miserable adjective
miserable; tragic; wretched; pathetic

最惨的是，我都不知道我做了什么。

zuì cǎn de shì, wǒ dōu bù​zhī​dào wǒ zuò le shén​me.

The worst part is, I don't even know what I did.

disastrously adjective
disastrously; to a serious or severe degree

我们输得很惨。

wǒ​men shū de hěn cǎn.

We lost badly.

gloomy adjective
gloomy; dim; dark; used to describe a lack of light or color
cruel
cruel; savage; inhuman; ruthless

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,530th most common 68.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,448th most common 47.6 per million appears in 25% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
31.4 per million appears in 13% of films
Written text
23.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Traditional
慘
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+60E8

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)