惨めな
みじめな · mijimena · JLPT N2 · noun
miserable
🥀 惨 (tragic, cruel) + め = a miserable, wretched state
惨 means cruel or tragic. 惨め (みじめ) describes someone pitifully wretched, often after humiliation or failure.
惨 — heart radical 忄 + 参 cān (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The heart radical 忄 signals an emotional meaning, while 参 (cān) supplies the sound. The original sense was cruel or grievous suffering, later broadening to mean miserable, tragic, or disastrous.