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Top matchCommonWaniKani 20
  1. Noun

    disaster; calamity; misfortune; trouble; woes

    災いを転じて福としなさい。
    Turn your misfortune to account.

Also written 禍【わざわい】殃【わざわい】

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disaster, calamity, woe, curse, evil

Kun
わざわ.い
On
サイ
Strokes
7
Taught
Grade 5
JLPT
N1
Frequency
976 of 2500
Radical
fire
WaniKani
Level 20

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Dictionary and index codes (31)
CodeReference
2-3-4SKIP code
4d3.3The Kanji Dictionary
2280.9Four corner code
2762deroo
707dUnicode hex code
1-26-50JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1448Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3400New Nelson (John Haig)
2206New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2734Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1400Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1888Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
167Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
179Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1061A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
788Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
18879Morohashi
680A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1335Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1418Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
789sakade
1510Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
707henshall3
667Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
873Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1263Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
169Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
zai1Pinyin reading
jaeKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
20WaniKani level

More words

All 36

Words starting with 災

Words ending in 災

Sentences

All 28

火災で全てのコンピューターディスクが駄目になってしまった時、会社はもうお手上げの状況だった。

The company faced a major interruption in business when a fire destroyed their archive of computer hard drives and optical discs.

Break it down Tatoeba

デリカテッセンから火災が発生し、灰の山を残して全焼した。

A delicatessen caught fire and burned down, leaving a heap of ashes.

Break it down Tatoeba

医療品は被災者たちに配分された。

The medical supplies were allocated to the victims of the disaster.

Break it down Tatoeba