惨 cǎn
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 忄 — heart
- Made of
- 忄 heart 参 to take part in, to intervene
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
惨白
cǎnbái
deathly pale; ashen
Characters in this word
白 bái
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 白 — white
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 听到体检结果后，他的脸一下子变得惨白。 Tīngdào tǐjiǎn jiéguǒ hòu, tā de liǎn yíxiàzi biàn de cǎnbái. After hearing the medical examination result, his face suddenly turned deathly pale.
- 她吓得脸色惨白，半天说不出话来。 Tā xià de liǎnsè cǎnbái, bàntiān shuō bù chū huà lái. She was so frightened that her face went deathly pale and she could not speak for a long while.
- 月光照在墙上，一片惨白。 Yuèguāng zhào zài qiáng shang, yí piàn cǎnbái. The moonlight fell on the wall, making it a stretch of ghostly white.
Related words
- 悲惨 bēicǎn miserable; tragic
- 惨 cǎn miserable; tragic; severe
- 惨痛 cǎntòng painful; bitter; grievous
- 惨重 cǎnzhòng heavy; severe
- 白 bái white
- 白天 báitiān daytime, during the day
- 明白 míngbai to understand; clear
- 白色 báisè white
- 白 bái in vain; for free
- 白菜 báicài Chinese cabbage
- 白酒 báijiǔ Chinese liquor
- 白白 báibái in vain, for nothing