惨不忍睹 — Chinese idiom
惨不忍睹
cǎn bù rěn dǔ
Traditional: 慘不忍睹
Meaning
- lit. so horrible that one cannot bear to look
- fig. miserable; horrendous; atrocious
Character by character
- 惨cǎnmiserable, wretched; cruel, inhuman
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 忍rěnto endure, to bear, to suffer, to tolerate
- 睹dǔto look at, to gaze at; to observe
Idioms sharing a character
- 伤心惨目 shāng xīn cǎn mù
- 惨不忍闻 cǎn bù rěn wén
- 惨淡经营 cǎn dàn jīng yíng
- 惨无人道 cǎn wú rén dào
- 惨绝人寰 cǎn jué rén huán
- 绿惨红愁 lǜ cǎn hóng chóu
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一尘不染 yī chén bù rǎn
- 一字不差 yī zì bù chà
- 一字不提 yī zì bù tí
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