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慘 (caam2) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

慘 (caam2, cǎn) — unlucky; miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy; pitiful

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beyond HSK

Related words

• 慘情 (caam2 cing4) — miserable
• 慘綠愁紅 (caam2 luk6 sau4 hung4) — the feeling responding to one's sad life story
• 慘不忍睹 (caam2 bat1 jan2 dou2) — lit. so horrible that one cannot bear to look (idiom); fig. miserable; horrendo…
• 慘不忍聞 (caam2 bat1 jan2 man4) — (idiom) dreadful to hear
• 慘事 (caam2 si6) — disaster
• 慘劇 (caam2 kek6) — tragedy; calamity; atrocity

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