災 — disaster, calamity, woe

わざわい災 disaster

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes

U+707D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #976 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #179 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

disaster
calamity
woe
curse
evil

word

わざわ wazawa Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

災(わざわ) い wazawai disaster

さい sai 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) 害(がい) saigai disaster 防(ぼう) 災(さい) bousai disaster prevention 火(か) 災(さい) kasai fire 労(ろう) 災(さい) rousai workers' compensation 被(ひ) 災(さい) hisai being affected by disaster 震(しん) 災(さい) shinsai earthquake disaster 大(だい) 震(しん) 災(さい) daishinsai great earthquake disaster 災(さい) 禍(か) saika disaster

Appears in idioms

口は災いの元諺

the mouth is the source of disaster

無病息災四字熟語

nothingness, ill, breath, disaster

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

巛 river

ひ火 fire #86

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#86 火 fire