Kanji

Stroke count: 9

Meaning: misfortune, disaster, calamity

Kunyomi: わざわい

Onyomi: オウ ヨウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: death, decay

Examples

Onyomi Examples

ヨオウ trouble brought on by sins of forebears

Kunyomi Examples

災い わざわい disaster, calamity, misfortune, trouble, woes

池魚の ちぎょのわざわい collateral damage, getting embroiled in someone else's dispute, having a fire spread to one's own house