Meaning

Calamity, Misfortune, Evil, Curse

Readings

Radical

礻 — altar (Kangxi radical #113)

Components

• 礻 (radical)
• 咼

Example sentences

• 禍福は糾える縄の如し。It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
• 若い人たちは戦禍というものを頭でしか知らない。Young people know the disasters of war only in the abstract.
• 口は禍の門。The tongue wounds more than a lance.

Appears in

Not used as a component of other kanji in this set.