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 cook in the anthill's kitchen (an2) but she's afraid of the ants. That's why she builds a bunker: she uses a saucepan lid (冖) as the base, constructs pillars out of petals (丶) and uses a graduation cap (宀) as the roof.
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

serious fire (in a city or a forest etc)
calamity / disaster / CL:個|个[ge4]
disaster area / stricken region
comet or supernova viewed as evil portent
lit. to flood (idiom) / fig. rampant / in plague proportions
victim (of a disaster)
disastrous situation / calamity
catastrophe / cataclysmic change
catastrophism (theory that geological changes are brought about by catastrophes such as the biblical flood)
catastrophism / the theory that geological change is caused by catastrophic events such as the Biblical flood
to avoid calamities
to avoid calamities and evil spirits
to take measures to mitigate the impact of disasters (including prevention, preparation, and support for stricken communities)
adversity / catastrophe / disaster
disaster area / scene of accident
series of calamities / disaster following on disaster
after a catastrophe / post-traumatic

Sentences with 灾

灾 currently does not appear in any sentence.