惨

miserable / wretched / cruel / inhuman / disastrous / tragic / dim / gloomy

variant of 參|参[can1]

to take part in / to participate / to join / to attend / to counsel / unequal / varied / irregular / uneven / not uniform / abbr. for 參議院|参议院 Senate, Upper House

ginseng / one of the 28 constellations

old variant of 參|参[can1]

Kangxi radical 61 (心) as a vertical side element

variant of 參|参[shen1]

variant of 參|参[shen1]

used in 參差|参差[cen1 ci1]

miserable / tragic

tragedy / calamity / atrocity

spectacle too horrible to endure (idiom); tragic sight / appalling scenes of devastation

lit. so horrible that one cannot bear to look (idiom) / fig. miserable; horrendous; atrocious

to scream / blood-curdling screech / miserable shriek

plaintive / mournful / miserable

inhuman (idiom) / brutal and unfeeling

disastrous turn / tragic event

wretched sight

tragic situation / dreadful state

(idiom) dreadful to hear

tragic situation; dreadful state

(idiom) too appalling to look at

the massacre of 12th Mar 1927 / the Shanghai coup of 12th Mar 1927 by Chiang Kai-shek against the communists

Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果|维克多·雨果[Wei2 ke4 duo1 · Yu3 guo3]

too horrible to endure (idiom); tragic spectacle / appalling scenes of devastation

disaster

wretched situation

grieved / distressed

(literary) to massacre; to slaughter; to brutally kill