Read Edit View history 𢦔 zāi disaster, calamity Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Archaic variant of 灾. Phonosemantic compound. 才 (cái) represents the sound and 戈 (weapon) represents the meaning, alluding to a war calamity. Components 才 才 Sound component cái, cai talent 戈 戈 Meaning component gē spear Component uses Sound (2) 载載 說文解字 傷也。从戈才聲。 Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode Etymology Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)