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

disaster; catastrophe
disaster / catastrophe
disaster prevention / to protect against natural disasters
plague of locusts
natural disaster / famine
area particularly hard-hit by a disaster / disaster area
disaster caused by hail
to drive away demons to prevent calamity (idiom)
disaster relief
to seek refuge from calamities
severe disaster
damaging storm / destructive typhoon
earthquake damage
frost damage (to crop)
a financial loss may prevent disaster (idiom)
to pray for luck and sacrifice to avoid disasters (i.e. traditional superstitions)

Sentences with 灾

灾 currently does not appear in any sentence.