Catastrophe in Chinese
catastrophe · HSK 6
灾难
- 灾 disaster
- 难 difficult
这次考试对我来说简直是一场灾难。 This exam was a total disaster for me.
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How do you say catastrophe in Chinese?
Catastrophe in Chinese is 灾难 (zāi nàn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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