禍 (huò)
disaster; misfortune; calamity
How 禍 is written
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 礻 — sign
- Traditional
- 禍
- Simplified
- 祸
Components
- 礻 sign
- 冂 upside down box
- ㇆ N/A
- 口 mouth
Common words using 禍
- 車禍 chēhuò
- traffic accident; car crash; CL:場|场[chang2]
- 人禍 rénhuò
- human disaster
- 大禍 dàhuò
- disaster; calamity
- 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
- 惹禍 rěhuò
- stirring up trouble; to invite disaster
- 災禍 zāihuò
- disaster
- 禍不單行 huòbùdānxíng
- misfortune does not come singly (idiom); it never rains but it pours
- 禍害 huòhài
- disaster; harm; scourge
- 禍根 huògēn
- root of the trouble; cause of the ruin
- 禍福 huòfú
- disaster and happiness
- 罪魁禍首 zuìkuíhuòshǒu
- criminal ringleader, main offender (idiom); main culprit; fig. main cause of a disaster
- 闖禍 chuǎnghuò
- to get into trouble; to suffer disaster; to suffer an accident
禍 in a sentence
聽說那個路口昨天發生了一起嚴重的車禍。
Tīngshuō nàge lùkǒu zuótiān fāshēngle yīqǐ yánzhòng de chēhuò.
“I heard a serious car accident happened at that intersection yesterday.”
How common is 禍?
禍 is the 1,867th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 96.6% of all running text.
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