惨

惨 — wretched, disaster, cruelty

JLPT: JLPT N1
Strokes: 11
Taught in: Secondary school
Frequency: #1463 most common

Readings

On'yomi came with the character from Chinese; kun'yomi is the native Japanese word it was borrowed for. A dot marks where okurigana takes over, a hyphen marks a prefix or suffix position.

On'yomi: さん san

ざん zan
Kun'yomi: みじ.め miji.me

いた.む ita.mu

むご.い mugo.i

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 惨

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