灾
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disaster; calamity
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 火 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 災
- Common rank
- #1,225
- Unicode
- U+707E
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
disaster · Heisig RSH #194
house + 火 fire
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 灾
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 血光之灾 | (idiom) mortal danger; fatal disaster | |
| 多灾多难 | to be plagued with misfortunes; precarious | |
| 重灾区 | area particularly hard-hit by a disaster; disaster area | |
| 灾难性 | catastrophic | |
| 自然灾害 | natural disaster | |
| 灾变说 | catastrophism (theory that geological changes are brought about by catastrophes such as th… | |
| 灾变论 | catastrophism; the theory that geological change is caused by catastrophic events such as … | |
| 灾难片 | disaster movie | |
| 大灾 | calamity; catastrophe | |
| 灾区 | disaster area; stricken region | |
| 次生灾害 | secondary disaster (e.g. epidemic following floods) | |
| 水灾 | flood; flood damage | |
| 天灾 | natural disaster | |
| 风灾 | damaging storm; destructive typhoon | |
| 成灾 | disastrous; to turn into a disaster | |
| 重灾 | severe disaster | |
| 天灾人祸 | natural calamities and man-made disasters (idiom) | |
| 火灾 | serious fire (in a city or a forest etc) | |
| 灾民 | victim (of a disaster) | |
| 灾后 | after a catastrophe; post-traumatic |