禍
禍 — hwa
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 재앙 화
- Romanization
- hwa
- English
- misfortune, calamity, disaster
- Mandarin
- huò
- Japanese on'yomi
- カ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- わざわい
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #2,010 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 示 (113, 9 residual)
- Unicode
- U+798D
Parts that make up 禍
How 禍 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 禍 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 示, 咼.
Korean example words with 禍
- 대화大禍 Korean gloss: 큰 재앙
- 급화急禍 Korean gloss: 급한 재앙
- 위화危禍 Korean gloss: 위험한 재화
- 화근禍根 Korean gloss: 재앙의 근원
- 화사禍事 Korean gloss: 좋지 못한 일
- 병화病禍 Korean gloss: 병으로 입는 재앙
- 액화厄禍 Korean gloss: 액으로 입는 재앙
- 가화家禍 Korean gloss: 집안에 일어난 재앙
- 출화黜禍 Korean gloss: 내쫓김을 당하는 화
- 화단禍端 Korean gloss: 화를 일으킬 실마리
- 화심禍心 Korean gloss: 남을 해치려는 마음
- 횡화橫禍 Korean gloss: 뜻하지 아니한 재난
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 禍
- 惨禍さんか calamity; disaster; catastrophe
- 禍根かこん root of an evil; source of a problem; source of trouble
- 戦禍せんか war damage; ravages of war; horrors of war
- コロナ禍コロナか COVID-19 pandemic; coronavirus crisis; COVID-19 crisis
- 禍まが wickedness; evil; calamity
- 黄禍こうか Yellow Peril (alleged threat to Western civilization posed by East Asians); harm caused by dumping human waste from train toilets onto the track
- 禍因かいん cause of trouble
- 禍害かがい evil; harm; mischief
- 禍源かげん source of misfortune
- 禍福かふく fortune and misfortune; prosperity and adversity; good and evil
- 災禍さいか disaster; accident; calamity
- 舌禍ぜっか careless remark; incriminating remark; unfortunate statement
Other hanja read “화”
Other hanja with radical 示
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences