災 is the Japanese kanji for disaster, calamity, woe, curse, evil. It is written with 7 strokes and appears at JLPT level N1. Its kun reading is わざわ.い and its on reading is サイ.
Stroke order
Words with 災
- 災いdisaster, calamity, misfortune
- 災害calamity, disaster, misfortune
- 火災conflagration, fire
- 防災disaster preparedness, prevention of damage resulting from a natural disaster, protection against disaster
- 被災suffering (from a disaster), being hit (by an earthquake, typhoon, etc.), falling victim (to)
- 労災work-related injury, work-related illness, work-related death
Practice 災 with brush strokes, spaced repetition and quizzes in the app.