Kanji1 / 11
惨 kanji
wretched, disaster, cruelty, harsh
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
サンザン
Kun readings
みじめいたむむごい
Variant forms
慘Words with 惨
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —惨状を極めるto present a very terrible (miserable) sight
- —惨澹miserable; pitiful; tragic; wretched; horrible; terrible; painstaking
- —悽惨ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid
- —惨鼻appalling; awful; horrible; horrifying; ghastly
- —苦心惨澹taking great pains
- —意匠惨澹taxing one's ingenuity in devising something; agonizing over designing or creating something; making strenuous efforts to devise good ways and means to do something
- —疾痛惨澹terrible worry; extreme anxiety