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禍

禍

See also: 祸

Translingual

Han character

禍 (radical 113 示+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 戈火月月口 (IFBBR), four-corner 37227, composition ⿰礻咼)

  1. misfortune, calamity, disaster

References

  • KangXi: page 844, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24766
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1265, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2402, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+798D

Chinese

trad. 禍
simp. 祸

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
碢 *l'oːl
腡 *ɡ·roːl, *kʷroːl
過 *kloːl, *kloːls
渦 *kloːl, *qloːl
鍋 *kloːl
楇 *kloːl, *ɡloːls
瘑 *kloːl
緺 *koːl, *kroːl, *kʷroːl
堝 *kloːl
濄 *kloːl, *qloːl
鐹 *kloːlʔ, *kloːls
薖 *kʰloːl
簻 *kʰloːl, *kr'oːl
禍 *ɡloːlʔ
窩 *qloːl
萵 *qloːl
檛 *kr'oːl
膼 *kr'oːl
蝸 *kroːl, *kʷroːl
媧 *kroːl, *kʷroːl
騧 *kroːl, *kʷroːl
冎 *kroːlʔ
剮 *kroːlʔ
諣 *qʰroːls, *qʰʷroːls
歄 *kʷroːl
咼 *kʰʷroːl
喎 *kʰʷroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡloːlʔ) : semantic 示 ‎(“sacrifice”) + phonetic 咼 ‎(OC *kʰʷroːl).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 禍
Mandarin Beijing /xuo⁵¹/
Harbin /xuo⁵³/
Tianjin /xuo⁵³/
Jinan /xuə²¹/
Qingdao /xuə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xuo³¹²/
Xi'an /xuo⁴⁴/
Xining /xu²¹³/
Yinchuan /xuə¹³/
Lanzhou /xuə¹³/
Ürümqi /xuɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /xuo³⁵/
Chengdu /xo¹³/
Guiyang /xo²¹³/
Kunming /xo²¹²/
Nanjing /xo⁴⁴/
Hefei /xʊ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /xuɤ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xuə³⁵/
Hohhot /xuɤ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦu²³/
Suzhou /ɦəu³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦo¹³/
Wenzhou /vu³⁵/
Hui Shexian /xo²²/
Tunxi /xo²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /xo⁵⁵/
/xo¹¹/
Xiangtan /ɦo²¹/
Gan Nanchang /fo²¹/
Hakka Meixian /fo⁵³/
Taoyuan /fo⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wɔ²²/
Nanning /wɔ²²/
Hong Kong /wɔ²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ho²²/
/e²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /huɔ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xua⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hua³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ho³³/
/hua³³/
Rime
Character 禍
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 胡果切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦuɑX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦuɑX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuɑX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwaX/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuɑX/
Wang
Li		 /ɣuɑX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣuɑX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huò
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 禍
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huò
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hwaX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ʷˤajʔ/
English calamity

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 禍
Reading # 1/1
No. 4375
Phonetic
component		 冎
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 禍
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡloːlʔ/

Definitions

禍

  1. trouble, disaster, misfortune, calamity

Japanese

Kanji

禍

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 禍)

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Readings

Noun

禍 ‎(hiragana わざわい, romaji wazawai)

  1. Alternative form of 災い

Korean

Hanja

禍 • ‎(hwa) (hangeul 화, revised hwa, McCune-Reischauer hwa, Yale hwa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

禍 (hoạ, vạ)

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