惨不忍闻 — Chinese idiom
惨不忍闻
cǎn bù rěn wén
Traditional: 慘不忍聞
Meaning
- dreadful to hear
Character by character
- 惨cǎnmiserable, wretched; cruel, inhuman
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 忍rěnto endure, to bear, to suffer, to tolerate
- 闻wénnews; to hear, to smell; to make known
Idioms sharing a character
- 伤心惨目 shāng xīn cǎn mù
- 惨不忍睹 cǎn bù rěn dǔ
- 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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