U+60E8 "惨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

惨

U+60E8 "惨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in traditional and simplified forms that primarily conveys meanings related to cruelty, tragedy, or severity, often carrying a negative connotation such as "miserable," "pitiful," or "harsh." In modern Chinese, it appears in words describing disastrous situations, like "悲惨" (tragic) or "惨案" (atrocity), and it can also intensify descriptions of failure or defeat, as in "惨败" (crushing defeat). The character is composed of the radical 忄 (heart) on the left, suggesting an emotional aspect, and the phonetic component 参 (can) on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+60E8
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	惨
HTML Hex Encoding	惨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE6 0x83 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x60E8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000060E8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u60e8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCCCII	273F38
kCangjie	PIKH
kCantonese	caam2
kDaeJaweon	0728.030
kDefinition	sad, pitiful, wretched; cruel
kEACC	273F38
kFourCornerCode	9302.2
kGB0	1850
kHanYu	42320.010
kHanyuPinlu	cǎn(51)
kIICore	AGJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	0728.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42320.010
kIRGKangXi	0392.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-3252
kIRG_HSource	H-9A61
kIRG_JSource	J0-3B34
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-4353
kIRG_KSource	K2-3264
kIRG_TSource	T3-3578
kJapanese	サンザンシンみじめいたむむごい
kJoyoKanji	2010
kTGH	2013:2449
kJapaneseKun	MIJIME ITAMU
kJapaneseOn	SAN ZAN
kJis0	2720
kKangXi	0392.181
kKorean	CHAM CHIM
kMainlandTelegraph	1971
kMandarin	cǎn
kMojiJoho	MJ011692
kMorohashi	10850
kNelson	1713
kPhonetic	23
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2178+61.3.8
kRSUnicode	61.8
kSMSZD2003Index	226.07
kTGHZ2013	031.120:cǎn
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"慘" U+6158 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GHJ
kXHC1983	0104.020:cǎn