慘禍

Chinese

		miserable; wretched; cruel miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; seriously; badly; tragic	disaster
trad. (慘禍)		慘	禍
simp. (惨祸)		惨	祸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cǎnhuò

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): caam² wo⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cǎnhuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cǎnhuò
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻan³-huo⁴
    • Yale: tsǎn-hwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsaanhuoh
    • Palladius: цаньхо (canʹxo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰän²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: caam² wo⁶
    • Yale: cháam woh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsaam² wo⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: cam² wo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaːm³⁵ wɔː²²/

Noun

慘禍

1. tragic accident; tragedy; calamity

Synonyms

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• 亂兒 / 乱儿 (luànr) (dialectal)
• 人禍 / 人祸 (rénhuò) (man-made disaster)
• 劫 (jié) (Buddhism)
• 劫煞 (Hokkien)
• 劫難 / 劫难 (jiénàn)
• 厄 (literary, or in compounds)
• 大禍 / 大祸 (dàhuò) (major catastrophe)
• 大難 / 大难 (dànàn) (major catastrophe)
• 天災 / 天灾 (tiānzāi) (natural disaster)
• 央厄 (yāng'è) (literary)
• 奇禍 / 奇祸 (qíhuò) (literary, unexpected disaster)
• 巨禍 / 巨祸 (jùhuò) (literary)
• 患 (huàn) (literary, or in compounds)
• 慘事 / 惨事 (cǎnshì)
• 慘劇 / 惨剧 (cǎnjù)
• 沙𧐔 (sua¹ sab⁴) (Teochew)
• 浩劫 (hàojié)
• 災 / 灾 (zāi) (literary, or in compounds)
• 災劫 / 灾劫 (zāijié) (literary)
• 災厄 / 灾厄 (zāi'è) (literary)
• 災害 / 灾害 (zāihài)
• 災殃 / 灾殃 (zāiyāng)
• 災禍 / 灾祸 (zāihuò)
• 災變 / 灾变 (zāibiàn) (literary, natural disaster)
• 災障 / 灾障 (zāizhàng) (literary)
• 災難 / 灾难 (zāinàn)
• 癰疽 / 痈疽 (yōngjū) (figurative)
• 眚沴 (shěnglì) (literary)
• 禍 / 祸 (huò) (literary, or in compounds)
• 禍事 / 祸事 (huòshì)
• 禍害 / 祸害 (huòhài)
• 禍息 / 祸息 (ho⁵ si⁶) (Xiang)
• 禍患 / 祸患 (huòhuàn)
• 禍殃 / 祸殃 (huòyāng)
• 難 / 难 (nàn)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (慘禍):

• → Vietnamese: thảm hoạ (慘禍)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
慘	禍

Noun

慘禍

1. chữ Hán form of thảm hoạ (“calamity; tragedy; disaster”)