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The kanji 災: meaning, readings and stroke order

災

Meaning
disaster
On reading
サイ sai
Kun reading
わざわ(い) wazawai
Strokes
7
Radical
火 fire
Level
Level 5 · grade 5

Stroke order

Stroke order of 災, 7 strokes: each box adds one stroke, the red one is the stroke being written

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese
tai hoạ (tai)
Japanese
わざわい。たいへんな できごと。
Korean
재난, 재앙 (재)
Chinese
灾难、灾害 (灾)

Readings, words and example sentences

サイ sai · on reading

わざわ(い) wazawai · kun reading · less common

Practise writing 災 in the app

In Dino Kids your child writes 災 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 5 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.

Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.