悲惨世界

Traditional form:

悲慘世界

Pinyin (reading):

Bēicǎn Shìjiè

Definitions:

• Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果／维克多·雨果 ( Wéikèduō· Yǔguǒ)

Characters:

• 悲 - sorrow, sadness, grief; to be sorry
• 惨 - miserable, wretched; cruel, inhuman
• 世 - generation, era, age; world
• 界 - boundary, limit; domain; society, the world

Traditional characters:

• 悲 - sorrow, sadness, grief; to be sorry
• 慘 - miserable, wretched; cruel, inhuman
• 世 - generation, era, age; world
• 界 - boundary, limit; domain; society, the world