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 |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 17.0591% of movies
1587th most common character in movies
1870th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+7978 |
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