Kanji1 / 13
禍 kanji
calamity, misfortune, evil, curse
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
カ
Kun readings
わざわい
Variant forms
禍Words with 禍
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —禍乱calamity; disturbance; disorder; turmoil
- —患禍disaster; calamity; trouble
- —豪雨禍flood devastation
- —交通禍traffic disaster; traffic accident
- —黄禍論Yellow Peril (argument); theory that East Asians are a danger to the Western world
- —風雨の禍disaster caused by wind and rain
- —吉凶禍福good and bad fortune, and weal and woe
- —舌禍事件trouble caused by a slip of the tongue
- —筆禍事件troubles brought on by what one has written; incident occasioned by a serious slip of the pen
- —禍福得喪calamity, good fortune, success and failure
- —幸災楽禍delighting in the misfortune of others
- —福善禍淫fortune follows the virtuous, calamity befalls the wicked; heaven rewards the good and punishes the evil
- —禍根を絶つto strike at the root of an evil
- —禍根を残すto create a breeding ground for future problems; to turn a blind eye to future trouble; to allow for something to come back and bite one in the ass (in the future)
- —禍福はあざなえる縄の如しfortune and misfortune are intertwined; fortune and misfortune come by turns; good luck and bad luck alternate (like the strands of a rope); good and bad fortune are next-door neighbours
- —禍福はあざなえる縄のごとしfortune and misfortune are intertwined; fortune and misfortune come by turns; good luck and bad luck alternate (like the strands of a rope); good and bad fortune are next-door neighbours