Kanji1 / 7
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
- —火災雲fire cloud; pyrocumulus cloud; flammagenitus
- —防災士disaster relief specialist; disaster preparedness expert
- —防災林forest planted to protect land, roads, etc. from natural disasters
- —ゼロ災zero accidents (in the workplace)
- —災対法Basic Act on Disaster Management
- —大災難large-scale disaster
- —防災袋emergency bag; survival kit
- —公務災害accidents in line of duty
- —自然災害natural disaster
- —防災訓練disaster prevention practice
- —無事息災safe and healthy; health and longevity
- —労災保険worker's accident insurance
- —労働災害work-related injury or death
- —火災警報fire warning; fire alert
- —一病息災one who experiences a chronic ailment takes better care of his health and lives longer
- —災害対策disaster response; measures to deal with natural disasters; disaster control; disaster recovery
- —災害保険disaster insurance
- —災害救助disaster relief
- —戦災地区war-devastated area
- —戦災孤児war orphan