惨不忍闻 — Chinese idiom

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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