牢狱之灾 láo yù zhī zāi

imprisonment

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. imprisonment

Characters

Character Meaning
牢 láo HSK 6
firm; sturdy; prison
狱 yù HSK 6
prison
之 zhī HSK 4
(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的de); it
灾 zāi HSK 5
disaster; calamity; variant of 災zāi