Measure word
- 火 huǒ fire; urgent; ammunition; fiery or flaming; internal heat (Chinese medicine); hot (popular); classifier for military... attested in use
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 災, the traditional character: 灾 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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万一发生火灾，打碎玻璃并按下红色按钮。
In case of fire, break the glass and push the red button.
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万一发生火灾，按下按钮。
In case of fire, push the button.
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在夜间发生了火灾。
A fire broke out during the night.
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地震之后发生了火灾。
A fire broke out after the earthquake.
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地震灾难的受害者非常多。
The victims of the earthquake disaster are numerous.
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堤坝保护了城市免受洪灾。
The bank secured the city from a flood.
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我们必须始终为灾害做好准备。
We must always provide against disasters.
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起初的天灾迅速演变为了人祸。
What was at first a natural disaster rapidly became a man-made debacle.