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慘

慘

See also: 惨

Translingual

Han character

慘 (radical 61 心+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 心戈戈竹 (PIIH), four-corner 93022, composition ⿰忄參)

References

  • KangXi: page 398, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11094
  • Dae Jaweon: page 738, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2348, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+6158

Chinese

trad. 慘
simp. 惨

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (參) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
篸 *ʔsluːm, *ʔsluːms
參 *sʰluːm, *sʰluːms, *sloːm, *sʰrum, *srum
驂 *sʰluːm
傪 *sʰluːm, *sʰluːmʔ
慘 *sʰluːmʔ
黲 *sʰluːmʔ, *sʰloːmʔ
謲 *sʰluːms
毿 *sluːm
蔘 *sluːm, *srum
犙 *sluːm, *sru, *srɯu
糝 *sluːmʔ
槮 *sluːmʔ, *sʰrum, *srum, *srumʔ
鬖 *sloːm
摻 *sruːm, *sruːmʔ
醦 *sruːmʔ, *sʰrumʔ
縿 *sroːm
穇 *sroːm
嵾 *sʰrum
磣 *sʰrumʔ
墋 *sʰrumʔ
曑 *srum
瘮 *srumʔ
滲 *srums

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 慘
Mandarin Beijing /t͡sʰan²¹⁴/
Harbin /t͡sʰan⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡sʰan¹³/
Jinan /t͡sʰã⁵⁵/
Qingdao /t͡sʰã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡sʰan²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡sʰã⁵³/
Xining /t͡sʰã⁵³/
Yinchuan /t͡sʰan⁵³/
Lanzhou /t͡sʰɛ̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /t͡sʰan⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡sʰan⁴²/
Chengdu /t͡sʰan⁵³/
Guiyang /t͡sʰan⁴²/
Kunming /t͡sʰã̠⁵³/
Nanjing /t͡sʰaŋ²¹²/
Hefei /t͡sʰæ̃²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰæ̃⁵³/
Pingyao /t͡sʰɑŋ⁵³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰæ̃⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡sʰø³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡sʰø⁵¹/
Hangzhou /t͡sʰẽ̞⁵³/
Wenzhou /t͡sʰø³⁵/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰɛ³⁵/
Tunxi /t͡sʰɔ³¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sʰan⁴¹/
Xiangtan /t͡sʰan⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰan²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰam³¹/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰɑm³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰam³⁵/
Nanning /t͡sʰam³⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰam³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sʰam⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰaŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰaŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰam⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sam²¹³/
Rime
Character 慘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 七感切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰʌmX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰəmX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰɒmX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰəmX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰᴀmX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰɒmX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰămX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cǎn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 慘
Reading # 1/1
No. 1084
Phonetic
component		 參
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 慘
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰluːmʔ/

Definitions

慘

  1. sad, pitiful, wretched
  2. cruel

Japanese

Kanji

慘

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

慘 • ‎(cham, chim) (hangeul 참, 침, revised cham, chim, McCune-Reischauer ch'am, ch'im, Yale cham, chim)

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Vietnamese

Han character

慘 (thảm, thom, thỏm)

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