Hanja Analyzer
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

  • 礻 보일 시, 땅 귀신 기variant of 示 제물을 올린 제단제사와 신, 하늘이 내리는 일. 왼쪽에서 礻 로 쓴다
  • 咼 입 비뚤어질 괘 한쪽으로 비뚤어진 입‘와·과’ 계열의 소리

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

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