灾
disaster; calamity
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Dict coverage rank #1,225 U+707E
How 灾 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A house 宀 on fire 火
How to remember it
disaster · Heisig RSH #194
house + 火 fire
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 灾
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 血光之灾 | xuè guāng zhī zāi | (idiom) mortal danger; fatal disaster |
| 多灾多难 | duō zāi duō nàn | to be plagued with misfortunes; precarious |
| 重灾区 | zhòng zāi qū | area particularly hard-hit by a disaster; disaster area |
| 灾难性 | zāi nàn xìng | catastrophic |
| 自然灾害 | zì rán zāi hài | natural disaster |
| 灾变说 | zāi biàn shuō | catastrophism (theory that geological changes are brought about by catastrophes such as th… |
| 灾变论 | zāi biàn lùn | catastrophism; the theory that geological change is caused by catastrophic events such as … |
| 灾难片 | zāi nàn piàn | disaster movie |
| 大灾 | dà zāi | calamity; catastrophe |
| 灾区 | zāi qū | disaster area; stricken region |
| 次生灾害 | cì shēng zāi hài | secondary disaster (e.g. epidemic following floods) |
| 水灾 | shuǐ zāi | flood; flood damage |
| 天灾 | tiān zāi | natural disaster |
| 风灾 | fēng zāi | damaging storm; destructive typhoon |
| 成灾 | chéng zāi | disastrous; to turn into a disaster |
| 重灾 | zhòng zāi | severe disaster |
| 天灾人祸 | tiān zāi rén huò | natural calamities and man-made disasters (idiom) |
| 火灾 | huǒ zāi | serious fire (in a city or a forest etc) |
| 灾民 | zāi mín | victim (of a disaster) |
| 灾后 | zāi hòu | after a catastrophe; post-traumatic |