zāi

calamities from Heaven

Evolution

烖 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
烖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
烖 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

zāi

calamities from Heaven, as floods, famines, pestilence, etc.; misery

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zāi

variant of |[zāi]

Most common words with 烖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

灾难

disaster

火灾

fire (that burns buildings etc)

disaster

灾害

calamity

救灾

to relieve disaster

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ˤə

tsoj

zāi

calamity


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 17.0591% of movies

1542nd most common character in movies

1349th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+70D6

Shuowen

“烖,天火曰烖。从火,聲。灾,或从宀、火;,古文从才;災,籀文从。”


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