害 (hoi6 | hai4) : harm; disadvantage; disaster; kill

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害

hoi6

hai4

[1] [n] harm; evil; disadvantage | [ant] 利
[2] [n] disaster; pest; scourge
[3] [adj] harmful; destructive; injurious | [ant] 益
[4] [v] do harm to; cause trouble to
[5] [v] kill; murder; assassinate
[6] [v] contract (illness); suffer from
[7] [v] feel (afraid, astonished, etc)

Additional PoS:

Stroke count: 10

Level: 1

Radical: 宀 (#40)

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

害

This word has been viewed 12498 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 7th Aug 2013 15:06

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損害 syun2 hoi6 sun3 hai4 = to harm; to damage; to injure

傷害 soeng1 hoi6 shang1 hai4 = to injure; to hurt; to harm

殺害 saat3 hoi6 sha1 hai4 = to murder; to kill

病蟲害 beng6 cung4 hoi6 bing4 chong2 hai4 = diseases and pests

害處 hoi6 cyu3 hai4 chu5 = disadvantage

有害 jau5 hoi6 you3 hai4 = harmful

災害 zoi1 hoi6 zai1 hai4 = scourge

陷害 haam6 hoi6 xian4 hai4 = to frame; to blame an innocent party

侵害 cam1 hoi6 qin1 hai4 = to encroach; to infringe

危害 ngai4 hoi6 wei1 hai4 = to jeopardise; to harm; to endanger
See all 55 compounds (CantoDict reports 56 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 4 examples containing 害

吸煙危害健康, 只要每日一枝, 已經足以致命
Smoking is very harmful; as long as you smoke one cigarette a day, it's enough to cause death

佢真利害，三兩下手勢就做低對手粵
His opponent was defeated in no time. He is really formidable.

跟住落嚟，受害者… 粵
Carrying on, the victims...

我最近戒咗煙，吸煙危害健康吖嘛! 粵
I've recently quit smoking, 'cause smoking is hazardous to health, right !
[吖嘛 is used here to reason out a statement that seems evidently true.]

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Decimal representation of this word: 害
Unicode code for this character: U+5bb3 (off-site link)

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