災 — Chinese character
災
zāi
disaster, catastrophe, calamity
- Pinyin
- zāi
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 巛 火
- Formation
- ideographic — A river 巛 on fire 火
- Simplified
- 灾
- Japanese
- 災 as a kanji
災 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Art of War 4 · I Ching 5 · Mencius 3 · Zhuangzi 4 · Great Learning 2 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Art of War 3.5
- Art of War 8.13
- Art of War 10.14
- Art of War 11.26
- Hexagram 24
- Hexagram 25
- Hexagram 56
- Hexagram 62
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.