Chinese symbol for “scream”
惨叫
cǎn jiào
Traditional: 慘叫
to scream; blood-curdling screech; miserable shriek
The closest CC-CEDICT match for scream is 惨叫 (cǎn jiào), defined as: to scream; blood-curdling screech; miserable shriek.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “scream”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 惨叫.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 悲惨 (悲慘) | bēi cǎn | miserable; tragic |
| 惨案 (慘案) | cǎn àn | massacre; tragedy |
| 惨重 (慘重) | cǎn zhòng | disastrous |
| 惨遭 (慘遭) | cǎn zāo | to suffer (defeat, death etc) |
| 惨败 (慘敗) | cǎn bài | to suffer a crushing defeat |
| 惨烈 (慘烈) | cǎn liè | bitter; desperate |
| 叫做 | jiào zuò | to be called; to be known as |
| 名叫 | míng jiào | called; named |
See also: Japanese symbol for “scream”.
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.