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Calamity Disaster Fire Natural 災 サイ わざわ.い Woe

Kanji
Onyomi サイ
Kunyomi わざわ.い
English disaster, calamity, woe, curse, evil
Examples 災害(さいがい): calamity; disaster; misfortune
火災(かさい): conflagration; fire
戦災(せんさい): war damage
天災(てんさい): natural calamity; disaster
災難(さいなん): calamity; misfortune; disaster
JLPT Level 1
Jouyou Grade 5
Frequency 976
Components 巛: curving river radical (no.47)
火: fire
Number of Strokes 7
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 86
Radical Strokes 4
Radical Reading ひ・ひへん・れっか・れんが
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword disaster
Koohii Story 1 What a disaster! First a FIRE, then on top of it came FLOODs.
Koohii Story 2 Don´t know about Japan, but here in Australia, flooding rivers and bushfires are the most common natural disasters.
RTK Index 167

Tags: jlpt.n1, grade5, kanjifreq751-1000, kanji_nature_weather

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