天災
See also: 天灾
Chinese edit
day; sky; heaven | disaster; calamity | ||
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trad. (天災) | 天 | 災 | |
simp. (天灾) | 天 | 灾 |
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
天災
- natural disaster; act of God (Classifier: 場/场; 次; 種/种)
Synonyms edit
- 亂兒/乱儿 (luànr) (dialectal)
- 人禍/人祸 (rénhuò) (man-made disaster)
- 劫 (jié) (Buddhism)
- 劫煞 (Hokkien)
- 劫難/劫难 (jiénàn)
- 厄 (literary, or in compounds)
- 大禍/大祸 (dàhuò) (major catastrophe)
- 大難/大难 (dànàn) (major catastrophe)
- 央厄 (yāng'è) (literary)
- 奇禍/奇祸 (qíhuò) (literary, unexpected disaster)
- 巨禍/巨祸 (jùhuò) (literary)
- 患 (huàn) (literary, or in compounds)
- 慘事/惨事 (cǎnshì)
- 慘劇/惨剧 (cǎnjù)
- 慘禍/惨祸 (cǎnhuò) (tragic accident)
- 沙𧐔 (Teochew)
- 浩劫 (hàojié)
- 災/灾 (zāi) (literary, or in compounds)
- 災劫/灾劫 (zāijié) (literary)
- 災厄/灾厄 (zāi'è) (literary)
- 災害/灾害 (zāihài)
- 災殃/灾殃 (zāiyāng)
- 災禍/灾祸 (zāihuò)
- 災變/灾变 (zāibiàn) (literary, natural disaster)
- 災難/灾难 (zāinàn)
- 癰疽/痈疽 (yōngjū) (figurative)
- 眚沴 (shěnglì) (literary)
- 禍/祸 (huò) (literary, or in compounds)
- 禍事/祸事 (huòshì)
- 禍害/祸害 (huòhài)
- 禍息/祸息 (ho5 si6) (Xiang)
- 禍患/祸患 (huòhuàn)
- 禍殃/祸殃 (huòyāng)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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天 | 災 |
てん Grade: 1 |
さい Grade: 5 |
on’yomi |
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- natural disaster
- 2015 September 14, Kaori Shoji, “When disaster strikes in Japan, keep calm and carry a diaper”, in The Japan Times[1], retrieved 2023-04-11:
- The Japanese disaster comes in many forms, and saigai include tensai (天災, literally, heaven-sent disasters — i.e., natural ones) [...]
References edit
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998) NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN