Home Home CantoDict Project. Cantonese - Mandarin - English Chinese Dictionary
Characters | Words | Sentences | Chinese Translation | Chinese Tests | Forums | Search
KangXi Radical List | Customise CantoDict | Dictionary Statistics

Remove Adverts
What is this page showing me?

  wo6 wo5   jyutping
  huo4   pinyin
[1] [n] misfortune; calamity; disaster; evil [2] [v] bring disaster upon; harm; injure; do evil to [3] [v] punish


Stroke count: 14
Level: 3
Radical: (#113)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
禍 / 祸

*** This entry has been marked as UNSURE by an editor, so it may not be fully accurate ***


This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008

Sponsors: One-on-One Online Chinese Tutoring | Classic Games | Mandarin
Spanish Language | Dish Network promotion code | Teaching in China

detail  ce1 wo6   = traffic accident
detail  joeng1 wo6   = to bring on disaster
detail  jin4 do1 bit1 sat1, wo5 cung4 hau2 ceot1   = when speaking non-stop, you'll eventually make a mistake
detail  beng6 cung4 hau2 jap6, wo5 cung4 hau2 ceot1   = disease enters through the mouth, misfortune escapes from the mouth
detail  wo6 gwok3 joeng1 man4   = harm one's country and people
detail  hang6 zoi1 lok6 wo6   = schadenfreude
This page shows, from top to bottom:
Script executed in 0.169734 secs
Rows returned from database=33
Donate to CantoDict
CantoDict v1.3.16 is a collaborative Chinese Dictionary project started in November 2003. Entries are added and mistakes corrected by a team of kind volunteers from around the world.
Copyright Adam Sheik 2003-2008.