残

• Pinyin: cán
• Desglose de hanzi: 残 = 歹 (skeleton/evil radical, implying damage or death) + 戋 (phonetic component suggesting something diminished)

Significado

dañar; devastar; (adj.) incompleto, deteriorado, menguante; (en compuestos) ‘daño/crueldad/restos’

As a standalone character, 残 appears mainly in literary contexts or as a productive morpheme in compounds: 残忍 (cruel), 残缺 (incomplete), 残留 (residual), 残酷 (brutal), 残阳 (fading sun), 摧残 (to devastate). In classical poetry, 残 evokes the fading or waning of things — 残阳 (dying sun), 残月 (waning moon). The sense of 'disability' is largely expressed by 残疾 in modern usage.

Ejemplos

1. 战争不仅摧毁了城市的建筑，更深深摧残了那一代人的精神与心理。
2. 古战场上的残垣断壁在夕阳下静静伫立，诉说着那段历史的沉重。
3. 身残志坚四个字，浓缩了无数在逆境中依然不肯屈服的人的精神写照。

Guía de uso

Contexto: literary, history, human condition, poetry

Tono: somber

Correcto

• 这场灾难深深摧残了当地的生态环境。(This disaster severely devastated the local ecological environment.)
• 残阳如血，映照着这座千年古城的轮廓。(The dying sun, red as blood, cast its light over the silhouette of this thousand-year-old city.)

Incorrecto

• 这个食物残了。(Don't use 残 for spoiled food — use 坏了 or 变质了 instead)

Origen e historia

残 = 歹 (skeleton/evil radical, implying death, damage, or deterioration) + 戋 (phonetic component, also suggesting thinness or smallness). The character fundamentally conveys damage, deterioration, or destruction.

Contexto cultural

Generación: Literary/educated

Contexto social: Educated