慘 — Chinese character
慘
cǎn
miserable, wretched; cruel, inhuman
- Pinyin
- cǎn
- Radical
- 61 ⼼ (Heart)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 忄 參
- Formation
- pictophonetic — heart; meaning component 忄; sound component 參
- Simplified
- 惨
- Japanese
- 慘 as a kanji
慘 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.