| Definition | sad, pitiful, wretched; cruel |
| Unicode | U+60E8 |
| Cangjie | PIKH |
| Total strokes | 11 |
| Radical + strokes | 忄 tâm (61) + 8 strokes |
| Mandarin (Pinyin) | cǎn |
| Cantonese (Jyutping) | caam2 |
| Vietnamese | thom, nhũ "thom thóp" (gdhn) |
| Vietnamese | thảm, nhũ "thảm kịch, thê thảm" (gdhn) |