灾

See also: 災

灾 U+707E, 灾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-707E ← 災 [U+707D] CJK Unified Ideographs 灿 → [U+707F]

Translingual

Han character

灾 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 十火 (JF), composition ⿱宀火)

Derived characters

• 叜 𡨎 𡨝 𮐗 𮳇 𨐭
• 𪹀 (Simplified form of 𤑹)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 666, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18881
• Dae Jaweon: page 1075, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2190, character 2
• Unihan data for U+707E

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (災) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
灾	*ʔsɯː
災	*ʔslɯː

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 宀 (“house”) + 火 (“fire”) — a burning house. One of the original forms of 災 (OC *ʔslɯː, “disaster”).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 灾 – see 災 (“calamity; disaster; catastrophe; fire; to be destroyed by fire; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 災).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji

灾

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. alternative form of 災

Readings

• On (unclassified): さい (sai)
• Kun: わざわい (wazawai)

Vietnamese

Han character

灾: Hán Việt readings: tai

1. Variant of 災, see there for more details.