calamity, misfortune, evil, curse

  • JLPT N1
  • 13 strokes
  • Secondary (Jōyō)
  • Radical 示
  • #2010 most frequent
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Readings

On'yomi 音読み
Kun'yomi 訓読み
わざわい

Example sentences 3

禍福かふくあざなえる なわごとし。

When an ill wind blows it does good to no one.

彼らは和やかな雰囲気の中で話し合った. They had a talk in a friendly atmosphere.荒れ狂う時と和やかな落ち着いた時があり、禍と福をもたらすと考えられている。

It is considered that there are times when the divine spirit is violent and there are other times when it is quiet and calm, representing evils and blessings, respectively.「

ここで責任はとまる, 責任の転嫁はしない. The buck stops here.彼女は欲求不満を食欲に転嫁した. She redirected [【医学】 sublimated] her frustrations into overeating.彼は自分の失敗の責任を他の人に転嫁しようとした. He tried to shift the blame for his failure onto someone else.不吉な夢を売ると禍が転嫁するという考え方があった。

In those days, it was believed that selling a bad dream would protect the dreamer from any possible bad luck.