Chinese symbol for “atrocious”
骇人听闻
hài rén tīng wén
Traditional: 駭人聽聞
shocking; horrifying; atrocious; terrible
The closest CC-CEDICT match for atrocious is 骇人听闻 (hài rén tīng wén), defined as: shocking; horrifying; atrocious; terrible.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “atrocious”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 惨不忍睹 (慘不忍睹) | cǎn bù rěn dǔ | lit. so horrible that one cannot bear to look (idiom); fig. miserable; horrendous; atrocious |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 骇人听闻.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 骇客 (駭客) | hài kè | (computing) (loanword) hacker |
| 骇人 (駭人) | hài rén | terrifying; shocking |
| 惊世骇俗 (驚世駭俗) | jīng shì hài sú | universally shocking; to offend the whole of society |
| 惊骇 (驚駭) | jīng hài | to be shocked; to be appalled |
| 惊涛骇浪 (驚濤駭浪) | jīng tāo hài làng | perilous situation |
| 人民 | rén mín | the people |
| 人们 (人們) | rén men | people |
| 有人 | yǒu rén | someone; people |
| 听到 (聽到) | tīng dào | to hear |
| 新闻 (新聞) | xīn wén | news; 条 (tiáo) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “atrocious”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.