Amazing Chinese Characters (738）Disaster - 祸

The bronze script of character Disaster is

The left is character Display (Post 329), the right is character Skeleton (Post 736). The character Display is an omen in divination. If it is a skeleton, the future or the result of upcoming action would be disaster.

The big seal script of character Disaster is 

Similar to bronze script, the left is character Display, the right is character Skeleton.

The small seal script of character Disaster is

The left is similar to old scripts, the right is similar to bronze script.

The clerical script of character Disaster is

The left is Radical Display, the right is similar to small seal script.

The Pinyin of the character is Huo4. 

Many dictionary or translation app translate the character to be misfortune. It is true, the character has the meaning of misfortune, but misfortune may be only unlucky, not disaster. The character has disaster, much worse than misfortune.