禍 — calamity, misfortune, evil

か禍 calamity

か

U+798D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2010 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1386 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

calamity
misfortune
evil
curse

Readings

On'yomi: か ka
Kun'yomi: わざわい wazawai

word

か ka On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

災(さい) 禍(か) saika disaster コロナ禍(か) koronaka COVID-19 pandemic

Words by frequency and grade

2 words

Each dot is a word containing 禍: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 2 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

礻 altar/spirit (left form)

咼 crooked

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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