祸
禍huò
#1,867 most
frequent character
disaster, misfortune, calamity
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
祸 has 礻, an ancestral tablet, as its picture part and 呙 guō as its sound part. It first meant calamity or misfortune. That later grew to disaster.
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