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灾难 zāinàn

灾难 zāinàn Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 2 English Translations of the word 灾难 zāinàn .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
zāinàn | zai1 nan4
English translation
disaster
catastrophe

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Traditional form

災難

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí
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Etymology of 灾难 zāinàn

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zāi

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Depicts a fire ( Huǒ ) burning a building ( gài ).

Positional decomposition

宀火

Number of Strokes

7
nán

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. zhuī represents the meaning and jǐn represents the sound. The character is based on the original meaning "type of bird", which is unrelated to the modern meaning. The simplified character nán was adapted from the cursive form of the trad

Positional decomposition

又隹

Number of Strokes

10

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Example sentences using 灾难 zāinàn

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zhè cháng 灾难 zāinàn de 部分 bùfen 责任 zérèn tuī dào 约翰 Yuē hàn 身上 shēn shang , zhè tài 公平 gōngpíng le .

Much of the responsibility for the disaster was shifted onto John, and this was quite undeserved.

太多高尔夫 gāo ěr fū qiú shǒu dōu xiǎng qiú Cóng 沙子 shā zi qiāo 出来 chū lái 结果 jiēguǒ 酿成 niàng chéng le 一场灾难 zāinàn

Too many golfers try to bash the ball out of sand. That spells disaster.

那起事故 shìgù 仿佛 fǎngfú shì 过去 guòqu 灾难 zāinàn de 重现 chóng xiàn

The accident has echoes of past disasters.

duì 咖啡 kāfēi 价格 jiàgé de 影响 yǐngxiǎng duì 生产商而言 ér yán shì 灾难性 zāi nàn xìng 的。

The effect on coffee prices has been disastrous for the producers.

duì 桑德罗来说 Xīn de 一年带来 dài lái de shì 灾难 zāinàn

For Sandro, the new year brought disaster.

灾难 zāinàn Decomposition

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灾难 zāinàn Compounds

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