huò
misfortune
Phonosemantic compound. 礻 represents the meaning and 呙 represents the sound. Simplified form of 禍.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 祸
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
car crash | ||
disaster | ||
disaster | ||
fig. main cause of a disaster | ||
Schadenfreude |