慘事

See also: 惨事

Chinese

		miserable; wretched; cruel miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; seriously; badly; tragic	matter; thing; item matter; thing; item; work; affair
trad. (慘事)		慘	事
simp. (惨事)		惨	事

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cǎnshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄢˇ ㄕˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caam² si⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cǎnshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄢˇ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cǎnshìh
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻan³-shih⁴
    • Yale: tsǎn-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaanshyh
    • Palladius: цаньши (canʹši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰän²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: caam² si⁶
    • Yale: cháam sih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaam² si⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: cam² xi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːm³⁵ siː²²/

Noun

慘事

1. disastrous event (especially one involving great loss of life or injury); tragedy

Synonyms

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• 亂兒 / 乱儿 (luànr) (dialectal)
• 人禍 / 人祸 (rénhuò) (man-made disaster)
• 劫 (jié) (Buddhism)
• 劫煞 (Hokkien)
• 劫難 / 劫难 (jiénàn)
• 厄 (literary, or in compounds)
• 大禍 / 大祸 (dàhuò) (major catastrophe)
• 大難 / 大难 (dànàn) (major catastrophe)
• 天災 / 天灾 (tiānzāi) (natural disaster)
• 央厄 (yāng'è) (literary)
• 奇禍 / 奇祸 (qíhuò) (literary, unexpected disaster)
• 巨禍 / 巨祸 (jùhuò) (literary)
• 患 (huàn) (literary, or in compounds)
• 慘劇 / 惨剧 (cǎnjù)
• 慘禍 / 惨祸 (cǎnhuò) (tragic accident)
• 沙𧐔 (sua¹ sab⁴) (Teochew)
• 浩劫 (hàojié)
• 災 / 灾 (zāi) (literary, or in compounds)
• 災劫 / 灾劫 (zāijié) (literary)
• 災厄 / 灾厄 (zāi'è) (literary)
• 災害 / 灾害 (zāihài)
• 災殃 / 灾殃 (zāiyāng)
• 災禍 / 灾祸 (zāihuò)
• 災變 / 灾变 (zāibiàn) (literary, natural disaster)
• 災難 / 灾难 (zāinàn)
• 癰疽 / 痈疽 (yōngjū) (figurative)
• 眚沴 (shěnglì) (literary)
• 禍 / 祸 (huò) (literary, or in compounds)
• 禍事 / 祸事 (huòshì)
• 禍害 / 祸害 (huòhài)
• 禍息 / 祸息 (ho⁵ si⁶) (Xiang)
• 禍患 / 祸患 (huòhuàn)
• 禍殃 / 祸殃 (huòyāng)

 

Korean

Hanja in this term
慘	事

Noun

慘事 • (chamsa) (hangeul 참사)

1. hanja form^? of 참사 (“disaster; tragedy”)