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災

災 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. わざわい。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「火」+音符「𡿧」。「わざわい」を意味する漢語｛災｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

disaster, calamity, woe, curse, evil

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • サイElem.
Kun (native)
  • わざわ(い)JHS
Other languages
  • 拼音zai1
  • 한글jae
  • Hán-ViệtTai

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
7 strokes
Radical
火(ひ)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+707D

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱巛火

Words using this kanji

  • 災害さいがい台風、洪水、地震、噴火、伝染病などによる災い。calamity, disaster, misfortune
  • 災いわざわい「わざわい」を参照。disaster, calamity, misfortune, trouble
  • 災難さいなん不意に出来事。。calamity, misfortune, disaster
  • 災禍さいか風水害、事故などの災い。災害。disaster, accident, calamity, catastrophe
  • 災厄さいやく災難。災禍。災い。calamity, disaster, accident
  • 災異さいい天災地異の略。natural disaster, calamity
  • 災後さいごpost-disaster
  • 災潦さいろうwater damage, flood disaster
  • 災害地さいがいちdisaster-stricken area
  • 災害級さいがいきゅうdisaster-level (heat, rainfall, etc.), extreme, severe
  • 災対法さいたいほうBasic Act on Disaster Management
  • 災害対策さいがいたいさくdisaster response, measures to deal with natural disasters, disaster control, disaster recovery
  • 災害保険さいがいほけん火災保険と地震保険の総称。disaster insurance
  • 災害救助さいがいきゅうじょdisaster relief
  • 災いするわざわいするto be one's ruin, to do harm, to cause trouble, to have negative consequences
  • 災害派遣さいがいはけんdisaster relief operation, disaster relief mission
  • 災害外科さいがいげかtraumatology, accident surgery
  • 災害補償さいがいほしょうaccident compensation
  • 災害医療さいがいいりょうdisaster medicine
  • 災害発生さいがいはっせいoccurrence of a disaster

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Lookup codes

SKIP
2-3-4
Four Corner
2280.9
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4d3.3
Heisig
179
Nelson
1448