灾 — Chinese character
灾
zāi
disaster, catastrophe, calamity
- Pinyin
- zāi
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 宀 火
- Formation
- ideographic — A house 宀 on fire 火
- Traditional
- 災
Common words with 灾
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 灾难 (災難) | zāi nàn | disaster; catastrophe |
| 灾害 (災害) | zāi hài | calamity; disaster |
| 火灾 (火災) | huǒ zāi | serious fire (in a city or a forest etc) |
| 灾区 (災區) | zāi qū | disaster area; stricken region |
| 救灾 (救災) | jiù zāi | to relieve disaster; to help disaster victims |
| 灾民 (災民) | zāi mín | victim (of a disaster) |
| 受灾 (受災) | shòu zāi | disaster-stricken; to be hit by a natural calamity |
| 水灾 (水災) | shuǐ zāi | flood; flood damage |
| 灾情 (災情) | zāi qíng | disastrous situation; calamity |
| 洪灾 (洪災) | hóng zāi | flood |
| 自然灾害 (自然災害) | zì rán zāi hài | natural disaster |
| 天灾 (天災) | tiān zāi | natural disaster |
English words written with 灾
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.