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魔
魔
Translingual
Han character
魔 (radical 194 鬼+11, 21 strokes, cangjie input 戈金竹山戈 (ICHUI) or 戈木竹山戈 (IDHUI) or 戈木竹戈 (IDHI), four-corner 00213, composition ⿸麻鬼)
- a kind of demon, devil, evil spirit, evil influence, evil power or ability
- magic power
- familiar spirit, as in a witch's familiar
References
- KangXi: page 1462, character 67
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45906
- Dae Jaweon: page 1997, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4436, character 11
- Unihan data for U+9B54
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
魔 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (麻) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 麻 | *mraːl |
| 痲 | *mraːl |
| 犘 | *mraːl |
| 縻 | *mral |
| 醿 | *mral |
| 爢 | *mral |
| 蘼 | *mral, *mralʔ, *mrɯl |
| 靡 | *mralʔ |
| 摩 | *maːl, *maːls |
| 魔 | *maːl |
| 磨 | *maːl, *maːls |
| 劘 | *maːl |
| 麽 | *maːl |
| 麼 | *maːlʔ |
| 塺 | *maːls, *mɯːl |
| 麾 | *hmral |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maːl) : phonetic 麻 (OC *mraːl) + semantic 鬼 (“demon”) – a kind of demon, or their magical powers.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˊ
- Wade-Giles: mo2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mo
- IPA (key): /mu̯ɔ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: mo1, mo4
- Yale: mō, mòh
- Cantonese Pinyin: mo1, mo4
- IPA (key): /mɔː⁵⁵/, /mɔː²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mô
- Hakka Romanization System: mo´
- Hagfa Pinyim: mo1
- IPA: /mo²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mô͘
- Tâi-lô: môo
- Phofsit Daibuun: moo
- IPA (Xiamen): /mɔ²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /mɔ²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /mɔ¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /mɔ²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /mɔ²³/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 魔 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 戈 (95) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 莫婆切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/muɑ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/muɑ/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/muɑ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/mwa/ |
| Li Rong |
/muɑ/ |
| Wang Li |
/muɑ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/muɑ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
mó |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 魔 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8705 |
| Phonetic component |
麻 |
| Rime group |
歌 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
摩 |
| Old Chinese |
/*maːl/ |
| Notes | 梵譯māra，梁武帝改磨爲魔 |
Definitions
魔
Compounds
Japanese
Ryakuji for 魔, a phono-semantic simplification as 广 (radical/semantic) + マ (phonetic “ma” for on reading), also used for 摩; compare 機 and 議.
Kanji
魔
Readings
Compounds
Compounds
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Synonyms
Korean
Hanja
魔 • (ma) (hangeul 마, revised ma, McCune-Reischauer ma, Yale ma)
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Compounds
- 魔力 (마력, maryeok)
Vietnamese
Han character
魔 (ma)
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