災

Information about character(s)

Radical: 火
Radical Strokes: 4
Additional Strokes: 3
Total Strokes: 7
Simplified Form: 灾
Variants: 灾烖菑

Pronunciation

Pinyin: zāi
Cantonese: zoi1
JapaneseKun: WAZAWAI
JapaneseOn: SAI
Korean: CAY
Vietnamese: tai

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: calamity, disaster, catastrophe

CE-Dict: disaster/calamity

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.a calamity
2.a disaster

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: calamity; disaster; personal misfortune

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: calamity; disaster; personal misfortune

康熙字典文字版 【巳集中】【火字部】災
〔古文〕𤆎𦸜【唐韻】祖才切【集韻】【韻會】【正韻】將來切，𠀤音哉。【說文】天火也。【春秋·桓十四年】御廩災。　又【玉篇】害也。【書·舜典】眚災肆赦。【傳】過而有害當緩赦之。【左傳·僖十三年】天災流行國家代有救災恤鄰道也。　又作菑。【詩·大雅】無菑無害。　亦作甾。【史記·秦始皇紀】甾害絕息。　又叶子之切。【史記·龜筴傳】十有二月日至爲期，聖人徹焉，身乃無災。　又叶將侯切。【班固·幽通賦】震鱗漦于夏庭兮，帀三正而滅周。巽羽化于宣宮兮，彌五辟而成災。　【說文】本作烖。或作灾。籀文作災。
【說文】籀文災字。
考證：〔【書·堯典】眚災肆赦。〕　謹照原書堯典改舜典。

Buddhism words and phrases calamity, misfortune, woe, evil, curse

CF-Dict: calamité/désastre/mallheur

Han-De-Dict: Unglück (u.E.) (S)

Finnish: onnettomuus, kivut, haavat, kärsimykset, vitsaus