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灾害

zāi hài

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 災害 Measure word 个

灾害 (zāi hài) means "calamity; disaster". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 灾害 means

1. calamity
2. disaster

The characters in 灾害

• 灾zāidisaster; calamity
• 害hàito do harm to; to cause trouble to; harm

Example sentences

• 这是环境灾害。
  It's an environmental disaster.
• 我们必须始终为灾害做好准备。
  Wǒmen bìxū shǐzhōng wèi zāihài zuò hǎo zhǔnbèi.
  We must always be prepared for disasters.
• 由于特大海啸的灾害，核能融炉遭受损害，造成了原子能发电站爆炸。
  Yóuyú tè dàhǎi xiào de zāihài, hénéng rónglú zāoshòu sǔnhài, zàochéng le yuánzǐnéngfādiànzhàn bàozhà.
  Due to the catastrophe caused by the huge tsunami, damage was sustained by the nuclear reactor as well as explosions at the nuclear power plant.

Words starting with 灾害

• 灾害链zāi hài liànseries of calamities; disaster following on disaster

Words containing 灾害

• 自然灾害zì rán zāi hàinatural disaster
• 次生灾害cì shēng zāi hàisecondary disaster (e.g. epidemic following floods)

Where 灾害 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Persuasion, Advice & Shortage (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
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