disaster / calamity

= + : Zorro (z) just earned his PhD and is celebrating it with a bonfire (火) in front of the airplane (ai1), but then he accidentally drops his graduation cap (宀) and his certificate into the fire! What a disaster (灾)!
variant of 災|灾[zai1]

= + : Zorro (z) just earned his PhD and is celebrating it with a bonfire (火) in front of the airplane (ai1), but then he accidentally drops his graduation cap (宀) and his certificate into the fire! What a disaster (灾)!
old variant of 災|灾[zai1]

= + : Zorro (z) just earned his PhD and is celebrating it with a bonfire (火) in front of the airplane (ai1), but then he accidentally drops his graduation cap (宀) and his certificate into the fire! What a disaster (灾)!

灾 character breakdown

"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character look like a graduation cap (宀). Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to go to the anthill after her graduation from university. In the anthill's kitchen (an2), her friends snatch away her graduation cap (宀), and instead put a cooking top (冖) and a petal leaf (丶) on her head.
surname Huo
fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

= + : Helga Horse (hu) and Neanderthal Man (人) are starting a fire (火) in the observatory's living room (o3) with two large petals (丶).

Characters with 灾 as component

灾 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 灾

lit. to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (idiom); fig. to rejoice in other people's misfortune / Schadenfreude
flood / flood damage
disaster-stricken / to be hit by a natural calamity
natural disaster
to relieve disaster / to help disaster victims
to be plagued with misfortunes / precarious
disastrous / to turn into a disaster
defense against natural disasters
calamity will befall those whose moral standards are not in keeping with their social status
calamity / catastrophe
to provide relief during times of emergency and disaster (idiom)
to ward off calamities / to avoid disaster
emergency aid committee (of PRC Ministry of Civil Affairs 民政部)
secondary disaster (e.g. epidemic following floods)
catastrophes and unnatural phenomena / Heaven-sent warnings
to have one's house burned down / fire disaster

Sentences with 灾

灾 currently does not appear in any sentence.