Unicode: U+7978

Pinyin: huò

Definition

* 灾殃,苦难。 ~殃。~害。~患。~根。~端。~首。~事。战~。惹~。~从口出。~起萧墙("萧墙"是照壁,意思是祸事发生在家里,喻内部发生祸乱)。 * 危害,使受灾殃。 ~国殃民

misfortune, calamity, disaster

Structure

祸 graph

Related substructures

Precursors

Bronze Inscriptions
c. 1200–221 BCE (Shang–Zhou; continues into the Warring States)
Inscriptions cast or engraved on ritual bronzes, especially prominent from the Western Zhou onward; a major source for early political, ritual, and social history.Wikipedia ->
31_E15D
Chu Script
c. 770–221 BCE (Chu, Spring & Autumn–Warring States)
A regional script tradition used in the state of Chu, best known from brush-written bamboo and silk manuscripts with distinctive local forms.Wikipedia ->
51_E210
Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
27_798D
Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
81_E19D81_E19E81_E19F81_E1A081_E1A181_E1A281_E1A381_E1A481_E1A581_E1A681_E1A781_E1A881_E1A981_E1AA81_E1AB81_E1AC81_E1AD81_E1AE81_E1AF

Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC