灾 (zāi): meaning and stroke order
灾 (zāi) means disaster; calamity, variant of 灾, old variant of 灾.
灾
- Simplified
- 灾
- Traditional
- 災, 烖, 菑
- Pinyin
- zāi
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Stroke order of 灾
灾
- zāi disaster; calamity
- zāi variant of 災|灾[zai1]
- zāi old variant of 災|灾[zai1]
- 7 strokes
- Traditional form: 災
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Meaning of 灾
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zāi
Traditional 災
- disaster; calamity
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zāi
Traditional 烖
- variant of 災|灾[zai1]
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zāi
Traditional 菑
- old variant of 災|灾[zai1]
Radical and structure
- 灾
- Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 7 strokes · 宀 on top, 火 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 灾
- 灾难 zāi nàn disaster; catastrophe
- 灾害 zāi hài calamity; disaster
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).