| 残 | cán | to destroy; to spoil; to ruin; to injure; cruel; oppressive; savage; brutal; incomplete; disabled; to remain; to survive; remnant; surplus |
| 残酷 | cán kù | cruel; cruelty |
| 残留 | cán liú | to remain; left over; surplus; remnant |
| 残暴 | cán bào | bloody and cruel; a brutal person; to massacre; an atrocity |
| 残废 | cán fèi | deformity; handicapped |
| 残存 | cán cún | to survive; remnant |
| 残忍 | cán rěn | cruel; mean; merciless; ruthless |
| 残缺 | cán quē | badly damaged; shattered |
| 残害 | cán hài | to injure; to devastate; to slaughter |
| 残杀 | cán shā | massacre |
| 残局 | cán jú | endgame (in chess); desperate situation; aftermath (of a failure) |
| 残破 | cán pò | broken; dilapidated |
| 残部 | cán bù | defeated remnants; scattered survivors |
| 残骸 | cán hái | remains; wreckage |
| 残余 | cán yú | remnant; relic; residue; vestige; surplus; to remain; to leave surplus |
| 残兵败将 | cán bīng bài jiàng | ruined army, defeated general (idiom); scattered remnants |
| 残冬腊月 | cán dōng là yuè | final days of the lunar year |
| 残卷 | cán juàn | surviving section of a classic work; remaining chapters (while reading a book) |
| 残喘 | cán chuǎn | remaining breath; last gasp |
| 残奥 | cán ào | Paralympics; same as Paralympic games 残奥会 |
| 残奥会 | cán ào huì | Paralympic games |
| 残年短景 | cán nián duǎn jǐng | at the end of the year (idiom) |
| 残败 | cán bài | dilapidated; in ruins |
| 残敌 | cán dí | defeated enemy |
| 残本 | cán běn | extant fragment (of book) |
| 残株 | cán zhū | stubble |
| 残杀者 | cán shā zhě | killer; butcher; slaughterer |
| 残毒 | cán dú | cruelty |
| 残民害物 | cán mín hài wù | to harm people and damage property (idiom) |
| 残渣 | cán zhā | remainder; filtered out residue; sediment; waste product; debris; detritus; rubbish |
| 残渣余孽 | cán zhā yú niè | evil elements who have escaped eradication |
| 残留物 | cán liú wù | remnant; residue; material left over |
| 残疾 | cán jí | disabled; handicapped; deformity on a person or animal |
| 残疾人 | cán jí rén | disabled person |
| 残疾儿 | cán jí ér | a child with a birth defect; a deformed child |
| 残羹 | cán gēng | leftovers from a meal |
| 残羹剩饭 | cán gēng shèng fàn | leftovers from a meal; fig. remnants handed down from others |
| 残花败柳 | cán huā bài liǔ | broken flower, withered willow (idiom); fig. fallen woman |
| 残茶剩饭 | cán chá shèng fàn | spoilt tea, leftover food (idiom); remains after a meal; crumbs from the feast |
| 残茎 | cán jīng | stubble (the stems of plants after harvest) |
| 残虐 | cán nüè | mistreatment; bullying; tyrannical cruelty |
| 残酷无情 | cán kù wú qíng | cruel and unfeeling (idiom) |
| 残障 | cán zhàng | handicapped |
| 残余沾染 | cán yú zhān rǎn | residual contamination |
| 残余物 | cán yú wù | litter; trash |
| 残香 | cán xiāng | lingering fragrance |
