灾难 zāinàn▶ desastre

Stroke order

灾难 is written in 17 strokes across 2 characters.

• 灾 — 7 strokes
• 难 — 10 strokes

Related words

• 为难Avergonzado
• 艰难difícil
• 难堪Avergonzado
• 难得raro, escaso
• 难能可贵Digno de elogio por conducta excelente
• 灾害desastre

灾难 is pronounced zāinàn and means “desastre”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 灾难 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.