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魄

魄

Translingual

Han character

魄 (radical 194 鬼+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹日竹山戈 (HAHUI), four-corner 26613, composition ⿰白鬼)

References

  • KangXi: page 1461, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45810
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1995, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4431, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9B44

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 魄

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 魄 魄
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 透 (6) 滂 (2)
Final (韻) 鐸 (103) 陌 (113)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I II
Fanqie 他各切 普伯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰɑk̚/ /pʰˠæk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰɑk̚/ /pʰᵚak̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰɑk̚/ /pʰak̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰak̚/ /pʰaɨjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /tʰɑk̚/ /pʰɐk̚/
Wang
Li		 /tʰɑk̚/ /pʰɐk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰɑk̚/ /pʰɐk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tuo po
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 魄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 pò
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ phæk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pʰˤrak/
English bodily form or soul

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 魄 魄
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 191 201
Phonetic
component		 白 白
Rime
group		 鐸 鐸
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 託 拍
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰaːɡ/ /*pʰraːɡ/

Definitions

魄

  1. (religion, folklore) po, the soul which does not leave the body after death, compared to hun which does.
  2. soul; spirit
  3. vigor
  4. body
  5. dark part of the moon

See also

Compounds

  • 七魄
  • 七魄三魂
  • 三魂七魄
  • 丹魄 (dānpò)
  • 亡魂喪魄／亡魂丧魄
  • 亡魂失魄
  • 兔魄
  • 冰魂雪魄
  • 剩魄殘魂／剩魄残魂
  • 動人心魄／动人心魄
  • 動魄／动魄
  • 動魄驚心／动魄惊心
  • 勾魂攝魄／勾魂摄魄
  • 哉生魄
  • 喪魂落魄／丧魂落魄
  • 天奪之魄／天夺之魄
  • 失神落魄
  • 失魂喪魄／失魂丧魄
  • 失魂落魄 (shīhúnluòpò)
  • 奪魄／夺魄
  • 始生魄
  • 少魂失魄
  • 形魄
  • 復魄／复魄
  • 怵魄動心／怵魄动心
  • 懾人心魄／慑人心魄
  • 攝魄鉤魂／摄魄钩魂
  • 旁死魄
  • 旁魄
  • 既死魄
  • 既生魄
  • 月魄
  • 朏魄
  • 桂魄
  • 欺魄
  • 氣魄／气魄 (qìpò)
  • 瑩魄／莹魄
  • 皓魄
  • 窮途落魄／穷途落魄
  • 落魄
  • 落魄不羈／落魄不羁
  • 蟾魄
  • 褫魄
  • 迷魂奪魄／迷魂夺魄
  • 追魂攝魄／追魂摄魄
  • 銷魂奪魄／销魂夺魄
  • 陰魄／阴魄
  • 雨魄雲魂／雨魄云魂
  • 非凡氣魄／非凡气魄
  • 驚心動魄／惊心动魄
  • 體魄／体魄
  • 魂銷魄散／魂销魄散
  • 魂飄魄散／魂飘魄散
  • 魂飛魄喪／魂飞魄丧
  • 魂飛魄散／魂飞魄散
  • 魂魄 (húnpò)
  • 魄力 (pòlì)
  • 魄動／魄动
  • 魄散九霄
  • 魄散魂飛／魄散魂飞

Japanese

Kanji

魄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. a soul

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
魄
たま
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Perhaps from 玉 ‎(tama, “jewel”)

Noun

魄 ‎(hiragana たま, romaji tama)

  1. Alternative spelling of 魂

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
魄
はく
Hyōgaiji
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 魄 ‎(phæk)

Pronunciation

Noun

魄 ‎(hiragana はく, romaji haku)

  1. (religion, folklore) po (haku), the soul which does not leave the body after death, compared to hun (kon) which does.
    • 2004 June 15, Rumiko Takahashi, “試し作さく [Prototypes]”, in 犬いぬ夜や叉しゃ [InuYasha], volume 35 (fiction, in Japanese), Tokyo: Shogakukan, ISBN 4-09-126665-7, page 8:
      魂 (こん)は心 (こころ)…つまり魂 (たましい)だ。そして魄 (はく)は体 (からだ)を動 (うご)かす力 (ちから)…
      Kon wa kokoro… Tsumari tamashī da. Soshite haku wa karada o ugokasu chikara…
      Kon is the heart… in other words, the soul. And haku is the force that moves the body…
      魄 (はく)ってやつがあれば、魂 (たましい)のない死 (し)骸 (がい)でも動 (うご)くんだな。
      Hakutte yatsu ga are ba, tamashī no nai shigai demo ugokunda na.
      As long as it has this haku thing, even a soulless corpse can move.
Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

魄 • ‎(baek) (hangeul 백, revised baek, McCune-Reischauer paek, Yale payk)

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Vietnamese

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