Chinese symbol for “calamity”
灾害
zāi hài
Traditional: 災害
calamity; disaster; 个 (gè)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for calamity is 灾害 (zāi hài), defined as: calamity; disaster; 个 (gè).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “calamity”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 浩劫 | hào jié | calamity; catastrophe |
| 危难 (危難) | wēi nàn | calamity |
| 劫难 (劫難) | jié nàn | calamity |
| 灾 (災) | zāi | disaster; calamity |
| 大灾 (大災) | dà zāi | calamity; catastrophe |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 灾害.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 灾难 (災難) | zāi nàn | disaster; catastrophe |
| 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) |
| 伤害 (傷害) | shāng hài | to injure; to harm |
| 害怕 | hài pà | to be afraid; to be scared |
| 厉害 (厲害) | lì hai | (used to describe sb or sth that makes a very strong impression, whether favorable or unfavorable) terrible; intense; severe; devastating; a |
See also: Japanese symbol for “calamity”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.