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禍

禍 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Origin of the character

形声。「示」+音符「咼」。「わざわい」を意味する漢語｛禍｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

calamity, misfortune, evil, curse

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • カJHS
Kun (native)
  • わざわい
Other languages
  • 拼音huo4
  • 한글hwa
  • Hán-ViệtHọa

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

Basics

Strokes
13 strokes
Radical
示(しめす)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+798D

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰示咼

Words using this kanji

  • 禍根かこん災いの起こるもと・原因。root of an evil, source of a problem, source of trouble, cause of misfortune
  • 禍まがわざわい。困難な問題。wickedness, evil, calamity, disaster
  • 禍かわざわい。困難な問題。disaster, calamity, misfortune
  • 禍因かいんとなる原因。cause of trouble
  • 禍害かがいevil, harm, mischief
  • 禍源かげんの。厄の発生源。source of misfortune
  • 禍福かふく災いと幸せ。幸不幸。吉凶。fortune and misfortune, prosperity and adversity, good and evil, weal and woe
  • 禍事まがごとmishap, misfortune, calamity, disaster
  • 禍乱からん世が乱れること。calamity, disturbance, disorder, turmoil
  • 禍の府わざわいのふsink of iniquity
  • 禍津日まがつひgod who causes calamities, evil gods (who cause sin, etc.)
  • 禍々しいまがまがしいominous, sinister, unlucky, ill-omened
  • 禍津日神まがつひのかみgod who causes calamities, evil gods (who cause sin, etc.)
  • 禍福得喪かふくとくそうcalamity, good fortune, success and failure
  • 禍根を絶つかこんをたつto strike at the root of an evil
  • 禍根を残すかこんをのこすto create a breeding ground for future problems, to turn a blind eye to future trouble, to allow for something to come back and bite one in the ass (in the future)
  • 禍福は糾える縄のごとしかふくはあざなえるなわのごとしfortune and misfortune are intertwined, fortune and misfortune come by turns, good luck and bad luck alternate (like the strands of a rope), good and bad fortune are next-door neighbours

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(45 results)

Similar-looking kanji

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-4-9
Four Corner
3722.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
4e9.4
Heisig
1386
Nelson
3254