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Chinese dictionary
- 1
n.disaster; catastrophe; calamity
这座城受了灾。
This city was stricken by disaster.
他家里遭了灾。
His family was stricken by disaster.
去年有灾。
There was a natural calamity last year.
- 2
n.personal misfortune; unluckiness
没灾没病
good health and good luck
多难多灾
always dogged by misfortune
惹祸招灾
court disaster or invite trouble
Words and phrases with 灾
- 灾情[word]the condition of a disaster
- 灾变说[word]catastrophism
- 灾民[word]victims of a natural calamity
- 灾患[word]calamity
- 灾害[word]calamity
- 灾祸[word]disaster
- 灾异[word]natural calamities/disasters and unusual natural phenomena
- 灾区[word]disaster area
- 灾星[word]unlucky star; group or individual who brings people trouble and disaster
- 灾梨祸枣[idiom]a book which is poorly written and not worth reading
- 灾难深重[idiom]calamity-ridden