huò
misfortune
Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 咼 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 禍
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
car crash | ||
disaster | ||
disaster | ||
fig. main cause of a disaster | ||
Schadenfreude |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ʷˤajʔ | hwaX | huò | calamity |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 17.0591% of movies
1587th most common character in movies
1870th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+798D |
Shuowen | “禍，害也，神不福也。从示，咼聲。” |
Sources
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