灾 (災)
zāi
Pinyin

Definition

灾 (災)
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zāi
  1. disaster
  2. calamity
灾 (菑)
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zāi
  1. old variant of 災|灾[zāi]
灾 (烖)
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zāi
  1. variant of 災|灾[zāi]

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

消灾
xiāo zāi
  1. 1 to avoid calamities
火灾
huǒ zāi
  1. 1 fire (that burns buildings etc)
灾
zāi
  1. 1 disaster
  2. 2 calamity
灾难
zāi nàn
  1. 1 disaster
  2. 2 catastrophe
受灾
shòu zāi
  1. 1 disaster-stricken
  2. 2 to be hit by a natural calamity

Idioms (6)

天灾人祸
tiān zāi rén huò
  1. 1 natural calamities and man-made disasters (idiom)
幸灾乐祸
xìng zāi lè huò
  1. 1 lit. to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (idiom); fig. to rejoice in other people's misfortune
  2. 2 Schadenfreude
抢险救灾
qiǎng xiǎn jiù zāi
  1. 1 to provide relief during times of emergency and disaster (idiom)
泛滥成灾
fàn làn chéng zāi
  1. 1 lit. to flood (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. rampant
  3. 3 in plague proportions
破财免灾
pò cái miǎn zāi
  1. 1 a financial loss may prevent disaster (idiom)

Sample Sentences

强降雨导致意大利不少地区面临洪灾风险。
qiángjiàngyǔ dǎozhì Yìdàlì bùshǎo dìqū miànlín hóngzāi fēngxiǎn 。
Heavy rains have caused many parts of Italy to face risk of flooding.
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威尼斯所属威尼托区区长卢卡·扎亚说，洪灾本周可能达到威尼斯和佛罗伦萨一九六六年所遭遇洪灾的水平。
Wēinísī suǒshǔ wēinítuō qū qūzhǎng Lúkǎ ·zhāyà shuō ，hóngzāi běnzhōu kěnéng dádào Wēinísī hé fóluólúnsà yījiǔliùliù suǒ zāoyù hóngzāi de shuǐpíng 。
According to the mayor, the floods this week may reach the level of flooding experienced by Venice and Florence in 1966.
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该协议取消了对伊朗的制裁，这已经造成了灾难性后果。
gāi xiéyì qǔxiāo le duì Yīlǎng de zhìcái ，zhè yǐjīng zàochéng le zāinànxìng hòuguǒ 。
The removal of sanctions under the deal has already produced disastrous results.
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为了和平，我们要牢固树立人类命运共同体意识。偏见和歧视、仇恨和战争，只会带来灾难和痛苦。相互尊重、平等相处、和平发展、共同繁荣，才是人间正道，世界各国应该共同维护以联合国宪章宗旨和原则为核心的国际秩序和国际体系，积极构建以合作共赢为核心的新型国际关系共同推进世界和平与发展的崇高事业。
wèile hépíng ，wǒmen yào láogù shùlì rénlèi mìngyùn gòngtóngtǐ yìshi 。piānjiàn hé qíshì 、chóuhèn hé zhànzhēng ，zhī huì dàilái zāinàn hé tòngkǔ 。xiānghù zūnzhòng 、píngděng xiāngchǔ 、hépíng fāzhǎn 、gòngtóng fánróng ，cái shì rénjiān zhèngdào ，shìjiègèguó yīnggāi gòngtóng wéihù yǐ Liánhéguó xiànzhāng zōngzhǐ hé yuánzé wèi héxīn de guójì zhìxù hé guójì tǐxì ，jījí gòujiàn yǐ to collaborate gòngyíng wèi héxīn de xīnxíng guójì guānxi gòngtóng tuījìn shìjiè hépíng yǔ fāzhǎn de chónggāo shìyè 。
For peace, we have to securely establish an awareness of a community of destiny among humanity. Prejudice and discrimination, hostility and war, they only bring disaster and pain. Mutual respect, treating one another as equals, peaceful development, prospering together, this is the true path for humanity. Each country in the world should uphold the objectives and principles enshrined in the United Nations charter as the core tenets of international order and the international system, to proactively construct new international relations with win-win cooperation at its core, to continue to carry forward the sublime undertaking that is world peace and development.
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一点也没错，台风假的美意是要让大家在家里躲避自然的灾害，不是要让人出去玩的。
yīdiǎn yě méi cuò ，táifēngjià de měiyì shì yào ràng dàjiā zài jiālǐ duǒbì zìrán de zāihài ，bùshì yào ràng rén chūqù wán de 。
You're not at all wrong. The good intention behind typhoon days is that everyone is supposed to shelter from natural disasters at home, not to get people to go out and have fun.
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说到停水，我更怕的是停电啊，这样连报告都不能写了，我们就成了名副其实的受灾户了！
shuōdào tíng shuǐ ，wǒ gèng pà de shì tíngdiàn ā ，zhèyàng lián bàogào dōu bù néng xiě le ，wǒmen jiù chéng le míngfùqíshí de shòuzāihù le ！
Speaking of a water outage, what I'm more concerned about is a power outage. If that's the case, we won't be able to work on the reports at all. We really would become "victims" of this natural disaster.
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天灾人祸对于老百姓来说真是最严峻的考验，学校附近不是有片老房子吗？我看那里有些屋子，墙都塌了半边，希望里头住的人有个什么避难所可以去。
tiānzāi rénhuò duìyú lǎobǎixìng láishuō zhēn shì zuì yánjùn de kǎoyàn ，xuéxiào fùjìn bùshì yǒu piàn lǎo fángzi ma ？wǒ kàn nàlǐ yǒuxiē wūzi ，qiáng dōu tā le bànbiān ，xīwàng lǐtou zhù de rén yǒu gè shénme bìnànsuǒ kěyǐ qù 。
These calamities are the harshest of tests for ordinary people. Aren't there some old houses near our school? Some of those houses are already half caved in! I really hope the people living there have somewhere safe they can go.
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虽然粮食主产区分布广泛，但中国只有占全球7%的可耕地，要养活占全球20%的人口，因建设占用、灾毁、生态退耕等耕地面积持续减少。
suīrán liángshi zhǔchǎnqū fēnbù guǎngfàn ，dàn Zhōngguó zhǐ yǒu zhàn quánqiú de kěgēngdì ，yào yǎnghuo zhàn quánqiú de rénkǒu ，yīn jiànshè zhànyòng 、zāihuǐ 、shēngtàituìgēng děng gēngdì miànjī chíxù jiǎnshǎo 。
Although the main grain producing areas are widely distributed, China only has 7% of the world's arable land, and it has to feed 20% of the world's population. The area of cultivated land such as construction occupation, disasters, and ecological farmland has continued to decrease.
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日本京都动画公司社长八田英明19日证实，18日火灾将京都动画第一工作室过去全部画作、资料和电脑中储存的作品全部烧毁，损失巨大。
Rìběn Jīngdū dònghuà gōngsī shèzhǎng bātiányīngmíng rì zhèngshí ， rì huǒzāi jiāng Jīngdū dònghuà dìyī gōngzuòshì guòqù quánbù huàzuò 、zīliào hé diànnǎo zhōng chǔcún de zuòpǐn quánbù shāohuǐ ，sǔnshī jùdà 。
Japan’s Kyoto Animation Company’s president, Yasuda Hideaki, confirmed on the 19th that the fire on the 18th destroyed all the paintings, materials and computer-stored works of Kyoto Animation’s first studio.
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近几年来，网络消费发展迅猛，微商就是其中的典型代表，同时也成为消费者权益受损的重灾区。
jìnjǐniánlái ，Wǎngluò xiāofèi fāzhǎn xùnměng ，wēishāng jiùshì qízhōng de diǎnxíng dàibiǎo ，tóngshí yě chéngwéi xiāofèizhě quányì shòusǔn de zhòngzāiqū 。
In recent years, online spending has developed rapidly. Micro-business is a typical example of this development but at the same time it has also become the hardest hit group for consumer rights and interests.
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