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災

JLPT N1 SL5 7 strokes Frequency: #976

Meanings

Disaster, Calamity, Woe, Curse, Evil

Radicals

火

Decomposition

⿱巛火

Etymology

Ideographic: A river 巛 on fire 火

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 7

Stroke Order

1 curve right-to-left

2 curve right-to-left

3 curve right-to-left

4 dot bottom-to-top

5 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

6 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

7 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

サイ sai

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

わざわ wazawa

Words Using This Kanji

157 words total

Other (20 words)

労働者災害補償保険ろうどうしゃさいがいほしょうほけん

workers' accident compensation insurance

火災予防かさいよぼう

fire prevention

火災予防週間かさいよぼうしゅうかん

Fire Prevention Week

災害割増特約さいがいわりましとくやく

accidental death rider

大災害債券だいさいがいさいけん

catastrophe bond

大災たいさい

great disaster

災害対策基本法さいがいたいさくきほんほう

Basic Act on Disaster Management

東日本大震災ひがしにほんだいしんさい

Great East Japan earthquake (March 11, 2011)

災害対策本部さいがいたいさくほんぶ

disaster countermeasures office (temporary structure in case of emergency)

東北関東大震災とうほくかんとうだいしんさい

Tōhoku earthquake (March 11, 2011)

原発震災げんぱつしんさい

combined earthquake and nuclear power plant disaster

土砂災害どしゃさいがい

landslide disaster

火災発生かさいはっせい

outbreak of a fire

災い転じて福となすわざわいてんじてふくとなす

to turn misfortune into fortune (esp. through one's own efforts)

災いを転じて福となすわざわいをてんじてふくとなす

to turn misfortune into fortune (esp. through one's own efforts)

公共土木施設災害復旧事業費国庫負担法こうきょうどぼくしせつさいがいふっきゅうじぎょうひこっこふたんほう

National Government Defrayment Act for Reconstruction of Disaster-Stricken Public Facilities

火災救助袋かさいきゅうじょぶくろ

escape chute

震災関連死しんさいかんれんし

earthquake-related death

災害関連死さいがいかんれんし

disaster-related death

除災じょさい

warding off calamities

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