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
- —森林火災forest fire
- —環境災害environmental disaster
- —天災地変natural disaster
- —無病息災sound health
- —延命息災health and longevity; enjoying a long and healthy life being untouched by disaster
- —息災延命health and longevity; enjoying a long and healthy life being untouched by disaster
- —災害派遣disaster relief operation; disaster relief mission
- —災害外科traumatology; accident surgery
- —防災週間Disaster Preparedness Week
- —防災の日Disaster Preparedness Day (September 1)
- —災害補償accident compensation
- —火災予防fire prevention
- —防災頭巾disaster hood; protective hood worn during earthquakes and other disasters (e.g. to protect from falling objects)
- —原発震災combined earthquake and nuclear power plant disaster
- —土砂災害landslide disaster; sediment disaster
- —火災発生outbreak of a fire
- —防災無線wireless-activated disaster warning system
- —二次災害secondary disaster
- —激甚災害major disaster (that necessitates economic support to its victims); serious disaster; catastrophe
- —防災倉庫emergency supplies storehouse