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Kanji Detail for 禍 - "calamity, misfortune, disaster"

禍

  • Meaning

    禍 means "calamity, misfortune, disaster."

    1. Calamity - A disaster or misfortune; divine punishment.

    2. Disaster - A catastrophic event; great misfortune.

    3. Misfortune - Bad luck; adverse circumstances.

  • Words using 禍

    • コロナ禍 コロナか Listen COVID-19 pandemic; coronavirus crisis; COVID-19 crisis

  • Four-character idioms with 禍

    • 吉凶禍福 きっきょうかふく Listen good and bad fortune, and weal and woe
    • 幸災楽禍 こうさいらくか Listen delighting in the misfortune of others
    • 禍福得喪 かふくとくそう Listen calamity, good fortune, success and failure
    • 福善禍淫 ふくぜんかいん Listen fortune follows the virtuous, calamity befalls the wicked; heaven rewards the good and punishes the evil

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    • Verified meaning: calamity, misfortune, disaster
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Traditionally considered inauspicious in names — Japanese readers may find it an unlucky choice. Check the meanings above carefully before using it on skin.

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    calamity; misfortune; evil; curse

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    misfortune, calamity, disaster

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    disaster; misfortune; calamity

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    misfortune, disaster, calamity

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    The opposite of blessing. All disasters and calamities are called 禍.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    ka(カ) カ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    wazawa.i(わざわ-い) わざわ-い

  • Strokes

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    13 strokes

  • Radical

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    示 礻 (shimesu・shimesuhen)

  • Related Keywords

    calamity disaster misfortune curse punishment adversity affliction catastrophe bane blight hardship woe plague

Sentences including 禍

  • The tongue wounds more than a lance.

  • When an ill wind blows it does good to no one.

  • Young people know the disasters of war only in the abstract.

  • Politicians seem to not know the phrase "Words are the cause of disaster."

  • We'll have to try and make the best of it.

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