災

See also 灾, and 烖

Translingual

Han character

災 (radical 86 火+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女女火 (VVF), four-corner 2280₉, composition ⿱巛火)

1. calamity, disaster, catastrophe

References

• KangXi: page 666, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18879
• Dae Jaweon: page 1075, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2190, character 6
• Unihan data for U+707D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

災 (simplified 灾, Yale joi1)

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Japanese

Kanji

災 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: さい (sai)
• Kun: わざわい (wazawai)

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Korean

Hanja

災 (hangeul 재, revised jae, McCune-Reischauer chae, Yale cay)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

災 (simplified 灾, pinyin zāi (zai1), Wade-Giles tsai¹)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

災 (tzəi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

災 (tai)