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Chinese
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plunder
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disaster; distress; to scold disaster; distress; to scold; difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good |
| trad. (劫難)
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劫
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難
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| simp. (劫难)
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劫
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难
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Etymology
Combination of abbreviated Sanskrit कल्प (kalpa, “eon”) 劫波 + native Chinese 難 (“hardship”).
Pronunciation
Noun
劫難
- disaster; calamity; catastrophe (Classifier: 場／场; 次; 種／种)
Synonyms
- 亂兒 / 乱儿 (luànr) (dialectal)
- 人禍 / 人祸 (rénhuò) (man-made disaster)
- 劫 (jié) (Buddhism)
- 劫煞 (Hokkien)
- 厄 (literary, or in compounds)
- 大禍 / 大祸 (dàhuò) (major catastrophe)
- 大難 / 大难 (dànàn) (major catastrophe)
- 天災 / 天灾 (tiānzāi) (natural disaster)
- 央厄 (yāng'è) (literary)
- 奇禍 / 奇祸 (qíhuò) (literary, unexpected disaster)
- 巨禍 / 巨祸 (jùhuò) (literary)
- 患 (huàn) (literary, or in compounds)
- 慘事 / 惨事 (cǎnshì)
- 慘劇 / 惨剧 (cǎnjù)
- 慘禍 / 惨祸 (cǎnhuò) (tragic accident)
- 沙𧐔 (sua1 sab4) (Teochew)
- 浩劫 (hàojié)
- 災 / 灾 (zāi) (literary, or in compounds)
- 災劫 / 灾劫 (zāijié) (literary)
- 災厄 / 灾厄 (zāi'è) (literary)
- 災害 / 灾害 (zāihài)
- 災殃 / 灾殃 (zāiyāng)
- 災禍 / 灾祸 (zāihuò)
- 災變 / 灾变 (zāibiàn) (literary, natural disaster)
- 災難 / 灾难 (zāinàn)
- 癰疽 / 痈疽 (yōngjū) (figurative)
- 眚沴 (shěnglì) (literary)
- 禍 / 祸 (huò) (literary, or in compounds)
- 禍事 / 祸事 (huòshì)
- 禍害 / 祸害 (huòhài)
- 禍息 / 祸息 (ho5 si6) (Xiang)
- 禍患 / 祸患 (huòhuàn)
- 禍殃 / 祸殃 (huòyāng)