Jisho

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凄

10 strokes
Radical:
ice 冫
Parts:
冫 十 女 ヨ
Variants:
淒
uncanny, weird, threatening, horrible
Kun:
さむ.い、 すご.い、 すさ.まじい
On:
セイ、 サイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2313 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 凄艶 【セイエン】 weirdly beautiful
  • 凄惨 【セイサン】 ghastly, gruesome, appalling, lurid

Kun reading compounds

  • 凄い 【すごい】 terrible, dreadful, amazing (e.g. of strength), great (e.g. of skills), wonderful, terrific, to a great extent, vast (in numbers), awfully, very, immensely
  • 凄い事になる 【すごいことになる】 to go crazy (esp. of a situation or thing), to get out of hand, to end up in an extreme state
  • 凄まじい 【すさまじい】 terrible, dreadful, awful, horrible, ghastly, tremendous, terrific, enormous, prodigious, stupendous, amazing, appalling, shocking, staggering, absurd

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qi1
Korean:
cheo

Spanish

Portuguese

French

647 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
683 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
145 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
110 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1657 Morohashi
425 New Nelson (John Haig)
2133 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2036 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2b8.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-8 SKIP code
3514.4 Four corner code
1-32-08 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
51c4 Unicode hex code

惨

11 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
一 厶 彡 忙
Variants:
慘
wretched, disaster, cruelty, harsh
Kun:
みじ.め、 いた.む、 むご.い
On:
サン、 ザン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1463 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 惨 【サン】 appalling
  • 惨事 【サンジ】 disaster, tragedy, tragic incident, horrible accident
  • 凄惨 【セイサン】 ghastly, gruesome, appalling, lurid
  • 陰惨 【インサン】 sadness and gloom
  • 残虐 【ザンギャク】 cruel, brutal, savage, barbarous
  • 残酷 【ザンコク】 cruel, brutal, ruthless, merciless, inhuman
  • 冷酷無惨 【レイコクムザン】 cruel and heartless, merciless, implacable, cold-blooded

Kun reading compounds

  • 惨め 【みじめ】 miserable, wretched, unhappy, sad, pitiable
  • 惨い 【むごい】 cruel, merciless, pitiless, brutal, atrocious, inhuman, tragic, horrible, terrible, dreadful, miserable, ugly, horrifying

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
can3, can4
Korean:
cham, chim

Spanish

  • cruel
  • horrible
  • desastroso

Portuguese

  • desprezível
  • desastre
  • crueldade
  • severo

French

  • choquant
  • misérable
  • désastre
  • cruauté
  • rude
1309 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1470 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1713 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1304 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1304 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1725 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1843 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1457 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
818 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
585 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
354 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
441 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1737 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10850 Morohashi
483 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1896 New Nelson (John Haig)
1721 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1857 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1433 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1160 2001 Kanji
4k8.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
9302.2 Four corner code
1-27-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
60e8 Unicode hex code