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灾难

zāi nàn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 災難

灾难 (zāi nàn) means "disaster; catastrophe". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 灾难 means

1. disaster; catastrophe

The characters in 灾难

• 灾zāidisaster; calamity
• 难nándifficult (to...); problem; difficulty

Example sentences

• 那是灾难。
  That was a disaster.
• 地震带来了灾难。
  The earthquake brought about disaster.
• 萨米的表演简直是灾难。
  Sami's show was a disaster.
• 地震灾难的受害者非常多。
  Dìzhèn zāinàn de shòuhàizhě fēicháng duō.
  The victims of the earthquake disaster are numerous.
• 完美主义很容易酿成灾难。
  Perfectionism can quickly become a disaster.
• 一连串的灾难袭击这个地区。
  A string of disasters struck the region.

Words starting with 灾难

• 灾难性zāi nàn xìngcatastrophic
• 灾难片zāi nàn piàndisaster movie

Where 灾难 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · cuán–zàn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zāi nàn correctly.
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