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祸端
huò​duān

source of disaster

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
祸端 禍端 huò​duān
source of disaster
the root cause or origin of disaster or trouble; often used in formal or written contexts

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.199 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 起 qǐ

Synonym

  • 祸根 huò​gēn
  • 祸胎 huò​tāi

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)