災 (zāi)
disaster; calamity
How 災 is written
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 巛 — river
- Traditional
- 災
- Simplified
- 灾
Components
- 巛 river
- 火 fire
Common words using 災
- 消災 xiāozāi
- to avoid calamities
- 火災 huǒzāi
- fire (that burns buildings etc)
- 災難 zāinàn
- disaster; catastrophe
- 受災 shòuzāi
- disaster-stricken; to be hit by a natural calamity
- 多災多難 duōzāiduōnàn
- to be plagued with misfortunes; precarious
- 天災 tiānzāi
- natural disaster
- 幸災樂禍 xìngzāilèhuò
- lit. to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (idiom); fig. to rejoice in other people's misfortune; Schadenfreude
- 成災 chéngzāi
- disastrous; to turn into a disaster
- 救災 jiùzāi
- to relieve disaster; to help disaster victims
- 旱災 hànzāi
- drought
- 水災 shuǐzāi
- flood; flood damage
- 泛濫成災 fànlànchéngzāi
- flood causes disaster (idiom); fig. swamped with work
災 in a sentence
昨天附近發生了一場火災。
Zuótiān fùjìn fāshēng le yī chǎng huǒzāi.
“A fire broke out nearby yesterday.”
How common is 災?
災 is the 1,347th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 93.3% of all running text.
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