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祸 (Trad.: 禍)
Pinyin: huò
English Definition: disaster; misfortune; calamity
Chinese Definition:
①灾殃，苦难：祸殃。祸害。祸患。祸根。祸端。祸首。祸事。战祸。惹祸。祸从口出。祸起萧墙(“萧墙”是照壁，意思是祸事发生在家里，喻内部发生祸乱)。
②危害，使受灾殃：祸国殃民。
Antonyms: 福
Total strokes: 11; Radical: 示
Pictophonetic: 呙 indicates the sound; 礻 (spirit) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • ⿰ Left to right
    • 礻 [ shì ] spirit
    • 呙 [ guō ] to chat, to gossip, to jaw, to talk; mouth
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Example Words
车祸 chē huò traffic accident; car crash; Classifiers: 场
幸灾乐祸 xìng zāi lè huò lit. to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (idiom); fig. to rejoice in other people's misfortune; Schadenfreude
祸福 huò fú disaster and happiness
灾祸 zāi huò disaster
祸根 huò gēn root of the trouble; cause of the ruin
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