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  *惨* | 惨* | *惨
miserable / wretched / cruel / inhuman / disastrous / tragic / dim / gloomy
HSK 6
bitter / painful / deeply distressed
HSK 7-9
disastrous
HSK 7-9
deathly pale
HSK 7-9
devastation / miserable condition
bitter / desperate
dark / gloomy / dismal / by painstaking effort
to suffer a crushing defeat
to suffer (defeat, death etc)
massacre / tragedy / CL:
lit. so horrible that one cannot bear to look (idiom) / fig. miserable; horrendous; atrocious
tragedy / calamity / atrocity
to scream / blood-curdling screech / miserable shriek
extremely tragic (idiom); with unprecedented brutality
to die tragically / to meet with a violent death
inhuman (idiom) / brutal and unfeeling
calamitous turn of events / (of one's complexion) to change markedly due to shock, illness etc; to turn deathly pale
terrible tragedy / grave mishap
to manage by painstaking effort (idiom)
to slaughter / to kill mercilessly
wretched situation
bitter smile
cruel / vicious
grieved / distressed
(literary) cruel; savage; merciless
disaster
wretched sight
(literary) to massacre; to slaughter; to brutally kill
variant of 慘淡|惨淡
(idiom) dreadful to hear
grieved / distressed
tragic situation; dreadful state
dark red
to meet with disaster / to die tragically


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