禍

See also 祸

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 示 (“sacrifice”) + phonetic 咼

Han character

禍 (radical 113 示+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 戈火月月口 (IFBBR), four-corner 3722₇)

1. misfortune, calamity, disaster

References

• KangXi: page 844, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24766
• Dae Jaweon: page 1265, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2402, character 4
• Unihan data for U+798D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

禍 (simplified 祸, Yale wo6)

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Japanese

Kanji

禍 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: か (ka)
• Kun: わざわい (wazawai)

Noun

禍 (hiragana わざわい, romaji wazawai)

1. Alternative form of 災い.

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Korean

Hanja

禍 (hangeul 화, revised hwa, McCune-Reischauer hwa, Yale hwa)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

禍 (simplified 祸, pinyin huò (huo4), Wade-Giles huo⁴)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

禍 (huɑ̌)

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Vietnamese

Han character

禍 (họa, hoạ, vạ)