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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)
On readings
サイ
Kun readings
わざわい
Variant forms
灾烖Words with 災
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —大災great disaster
- —除災warding off calamities; getting rid of bad luck
- —減災natural disaster reduction; reduction of the effects of a natural disaster
- —災異natural disaster; calamity
- —水災water damage; flood disaster
- —兵災war damage
- —風災wind damage; storm damage
- —災後post-disaster
- —発災occurrence of a disaster; outbreak
- —災潦water damage; flood disaster
- —核災害nuclear disaster
- —震災地area of an earthquake disaster
- —大災害great disaster
- —被災地stricken area; disaster-stricken area; affected area; afflicted area
- —罹災者person affected by a disaster; afflicted person; victim; sufferer; survivor
- —罹災民victims; sufferers
- —災害地disaster-stricken area
- —戦災者war victims
- —消災呪disaster-preventing incantation; disaster-preventing dharani
- —災害級disaster-level (heat, rainfall, etc.); extreme; severe