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災 kanji
disaster, calamity, woe, curse, evil
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
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On readings
サイ
Kun readings
わざわい
Variant forms
灾烖Words with 災
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3火災Popularconflagration; fire
- N2災難Popularcalamity; misfortune; disaster
- N1災害Popularcalamity; disaster; misfortune
- N1戦災Popularwar damage
- N1天災Popularnatural disaster; natural calamity; act of God
- —震災Popularearthquake disaster
- —被災Popularsuffering (from a disaster); being hit (by an earthquake, typhoon, etc.); falling victim (to)
- —防災Populardisaster preparedness; prevention of damage resulting from a natural disaster; protection against disaster
- —労災Popularwork-related injury; work-related illness; work-related death; on-the-job accident; workers' compensation insurance
- —被災者Popularperson affected by a disaster; afflicted person; victim; sufferer; survivor
- —大震災Populargreat earthquake (disaster); highly destructive earthquake
- —火災保険Popularfire insurance
- —災禍disaster; accident; calamity; catastrophe
- —災厄calamity; disaster; accident
- —三災the three calamities: fire, flood and storm
- —人災man-made calamity
- —変災accident; disaster
- —厄災calamity; disaster; accident
- —罹災suffering (from a calamity); affliction
- —息災good health; stopping misfortune; preventing disaster