cǎn​jìng

dire straits

  • created sense approved 惨境/慘境 · cǎn​jìng · dire straits — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    惨境 / 慘境

    cǎn​jìng

    dire straits

    a miserable condition or wretched situation; a tragic state of affairs

    惨 (literal) → 惨/慘 · cǎn · miserable 境 (literal) → 境 · jìng · circumstances

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense