The kanji 禍: meaning, readings and stroke order
禍
- Meaning
- disaster, misfortune
- On reading
- カ ka
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 示 sign
- Level
- Level 9 · senior high school
- Old form
- 禍
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- tai hoạ (họa)
- Japanese
- わざわい。ふこうな できごと。
- Korean
- 재앙, 화 (화)
- Chinese
- 灾祸、祸 (祸)
Readings, words and example sentences
カ ka · on reading · less common
災禍
disaster, calamity
災禍から 立ち直ります。
They get back on their feet after the disaster.
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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.