菑
zāizī HSK5

to weed grass

灾 災 zāi frequency
variants 烖,菑
disaster noun
(bound form) disaster; calamity; catastrophe (e.g. floods, fire, or drought)
菑 zī
newly cultivated field
(literary) field that has been opened for cultivation for one year; field in general
Zi
(bound form) a Chinese surname
to clear land
(literary) to weed or clear land for farming
菑 zāi
disaster
(archaic) calamity or disaster; synonym of 灾 zāi
灾 菑 zī
wasteland
land that has been under cultivation for one year; to clear land for cultivation

Frequency
Character
Written text
7,038th most common 0.057 per million
Word
Movie subtitles
3.64 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
12.9 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+83D1

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)