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zāi

disaster, calamity

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Archaic variant of 灾. Phonosemantic compound. 才 (cái) represents the sound and 戈 (weapon) represents the meaning, alluding to a war calamity.

Components

才 Sound component

戈 Meaning component

傷也。从戈才聲。