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)!

災 character breakdown

archaic variant of 川[chuan1]

A magical spell which causes the caster to appear blurred.
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 災 as component

災 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 災

lit. to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (idiom); fig. to rejoice in other people's misfortune / Schadenfreude
natural disaster
disaster-stricken / to be hit by a natural calamity
to relieve disaster / to help disaster victims
disastrous / to turn into a disaster
to be plagued with misfortunes / precarious
natural calamities and man-made disasters (idiom)
defense against natural disasters
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)
calamity / catastrophe
to have one's house burned down / fire disaster
catastrophes and unnatural phenomena / Heaven-sent warnings
calamity will befall those whose moral standards are not in keeping with their social status

Sentences with 災

災 currently does not appear in any sentence.