Chinese symbol for “scourge”
祸害
huò hài
Traditional: 禍害
disaster; harm; scourge; bad person
The closest CC-CEDICT match for scourge is 祸害 (huò hài), defined as: disaster; harm; scourge; bad person; to damage; to harm.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “scourge”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 祸害.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 车祸 (車禍) | chē huò | traffic accident; car crash; measure word: 起 (qǐ) |
| 罪魁祸首 (罪魁禍首) | zuì kuí huò shǒu | (idiom) criminal ringleader; main offender; main culprit; main cause of a disaster |
| 幸灾乐祸 (幸災樂禍) | xìng zāi lè huò | (idiom) to take pleasure in another's misfortune |
| 灾祸 (災禍) | zāi huò | disaster |
| 人祸 (人禍) | rén huò | man-made 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 “scourge”.
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.