| 惨 | [ cǎn ] miserable, wretched, cruel, inhuman, disastrous, tragic, dim, gloomy |
| 惨不忍睹 | [ cǎn bù rěn dǔ ] spectacle too horrible to endure (idiom); tragic sight, appalling scenes of devastation |
| 惨不忍闻 | [ cǎn bù rěn wén ] too horrible to endure (idiom); tragic spectacle, appalling scenes of devastation |
| 惨事 | [ cǎn shì ] disaster |
| 惨剧 | [ cǎn jù ] tragedy, calamity, atrocity |
| 惨叫 | [ cǎn ] to scream, blood-curdling screech, miserable shriek |
| 惨境 | [ cǎn jìng ] wretched situation |
| 惨怛 | [ cǎn dá ] grieved, distressed |
| 惨败 | [ cǎn baì ] to suffer a crushing defeat |
| 惨景 | [ cǎn jǐng ] wretched sight |
| 惨案 | [ cǎn àn ] massacre, tragedy, CL:起[qi3] |
| 惨死 | [ cǎn sǐ ] to die tragically, to meet with a violent death |
| 惨杀 | [ cǎn shā ] to slaughter, to kill mercilessly |
| 惨毒 | [ cǎn dú ] cruel, vicious |
| 惨况 | [ cǎn kuàng ] tragic situation, dreadful state |
| 惨淡 | [ cǎn dàn ] dark, gloomy, dismal, by painstaking effort |
| 惨淡经营 | [ cǎn dàn jīng yíng ] to manage by painstaking effort (idiom) |
| 惨澹 | [ cǎn dàn ] variant of 慘淡|惨淡[can3 dan4] |
| 惨烈 | [ cǎn liè ] bitter, desperate |
| 惨无人道 | [ cǎn wú rén daò ] inhuman (idiom), brutal and unfeeling |
| 惨然 | [ cǎn rán ] grieved, distressed |
| 惨状 | [ cǎn zhuàng ] devastation, miserable condition |
| 惨痛 | [ cǎn tòng ] bitter, painful, deeply distressed |
| 惨白 | [ cǎn baí ] deathly pale |
| 惨祸 | [ cǎn huò ] terrible tragedy, grave mishap |
| 惨笑 | [ cǎn ] bitter smile |
| 惨红 | [ cǎn hóng ] dark red |
| 惨绝人寰 | [ cǎn jué rén huán ] extremely tragic (idiom); with unprecedented brutality |
| 惨变 | [ cǎn biàn ] disastrous turn, tragic event |
| 惨遭 | [ cǎn zaō ] to suffer (defeat, death etc) |
| 惨遭不幸 | [ cǎn zaō bù xìng ] to meet with disaster, to die tragically |
| 惨重 | [ cǎn zhòng ] disastrous |
| ⇒ 伤心惨目 | [ shāng xīn cǎn mù ] (idiom) too appalling to look at |
| ⇒ 四一二惨案 | [ sì yī èr cǎn àn ] the massacre of 12th Mar 1927, the Shanghai coup of 12th Mar 1927 by Chiang Kai-shek against the communists |
| ⇒ 悲惨 | [ beī cǎn ] miserable, tragic |
| ⇒ 悲惨世界 | [ beī cǎn shì jiè ] Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果|维克多·雨果[Wei2 ke4 duo1 · Yu3 guo3] |
| ⇒ 凄惨 | [ qī cǎn ] plaintive, mournful, miserable |
| ⇒ 绿惨红愁 | [ lǜ cǎn hóng choú ] (of women) grieved appearance (idiom), sorrowful mien |