Word Meaning 惨憺

さんたん santan

惨憺 is read as さんたん (santan) and means painstaking.

Meaning

English

  1. painstaking
  2. miserable
  3. pitiful
  4. tragic
  5. wretched
  6. horrible
  7. terrible

Reading

Kana

さんたん

Romaji

santan

Writing Variants

  • 惨澹 さんたん santan

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 27 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

苦心惨憺

くしんさんたん

taking great pains

意匠惨憺

いしょうさんたん

taxing one's ingenuity in devising something

疾痛惨憺

しっつうさんたん

terrible worry

惨敗

さんぱい

ignominious defeat

惨め

みじめ

miserable

惨事

さんじ

disaster

惨状

さんじょう

disastrous scene

惨劇

さんげき

tragedy

惨禍

さんか

calamity

惨殺

ざんさつ

slaughter

惨死体

ざんしたい

corpse of a person who has met a violent death

惨状を極める

さんじょうをきわめる

to present a very terrible (miserable) sight

Example Sentences

1

さんたんたるけっかにがっかりした。

I was disappointed by the dismal results.