They'll kill you.
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惨
Traditional: 慘
cǎn
HSK 3.0 · 6
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cǎn · caam2 (Jyutping)
- miserable
- wretched
- cruel
- inhuman
- disastrous
- tragic
- dim
- gloomy
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Character breakdown
惨
- Meaning
- sad, pitiful, wretched; cruel
- Radical
- 忄
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- ⿰忄参
- Cangjie
- PIKH
- Four-corner
- 9302.2
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Example sentences
That kind of person will fail for sure.
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