祸
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disaster; misfortune; calamity
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 示 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 禍
- Common rank
- #1,406
- Unicode
- U+7978
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Formation & memory
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How 祸 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
礻 meaning “spirit” + 呙 sound ()
Components 礻 呙
How to remember it
misfortune · Heisig RSH #2367
altar + esophagus
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 祸
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 病从口入，祸从口出 | Illness enters by the mouth, trouble comes out by the mouth (idiom). A loose tongue may ca… | |
| 祸不单行 | misfortune does not come singly (idiom); it never rains but it pours | |
| 大祸临头 | facing imminent catastrophe; calamity looms; all hell will break loose | |
| 有福同享，有祸同当 | To enjoy blessings and endure misfortune together (idiom); for better or for worse | |
| 天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福 | fortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom); … | |
| 杀身之祸 | (idiom) getting killed | |
| 包藏祸心 | (idiom) to harbor evil intentions; to conceal malice | |
| 祸从口出 | Trouble issues from the mouth (idiom). A loose tongue may cause a lot of trouble. | |
| 祸福无常 | disaster and happiness do not follow rules (idiom); future blessings and misfortunes are u… | |
| 兵连祸结 | ravaged by successive wars; war-torn; war-ridden | |
| 飞来横祸 | sudden and unexpected disaster (idiom) | |
| 因祸得福 | to have some good come out of a bad situation (idiom); a blessing in disguise | |
| 天灾人祸 | natural calamities and man-made disasters (idiom) | |
| 人祸 | man-made disaster | |
| 大祸 | disaster; calamity | |
| 祸水 | source of calamity (esp. of women) | |
| 祸心 | evil intent; malice | |
| 红颜祸水 | femme fatale | |
| 祸事 | disaster; doom | |
| 车祸 | traffic accident; car crash; CL:起[qi3] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 呙 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 呙 sound part | to chat, to gossip, to jaw, to talk; mouth | |
| 锅 | cooking-pot, saucepan | |
| 窝 | cave, den, nest; hiding place; measure word for small animals | |
| 蜗 | snail; Eulota callizoma | |
| 剐 | to cut; to sever flesh from bone | |
| 娲 | a goddess, the mythological sister and successor to Fuxi | |
| 莴 | lettuce | |
| 埚 | crucible | |
| 脶 | fingerprint |