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zai1

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Pinyin: zai [1st sound]
Definition: disaster, calamity

We can see the picture of burning house, ”” in the Oracle bone script (jia gu wen) this word have three different alphabets; first ”” is  a disaster from fire, ”” is a disaster from flood, and ”” is a disaster from weapons and wars.

 
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