魈

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魈 U+9B48, 魈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B48
← 魇
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 魉 →

Translingual

Han character

魈 (Kangxi radical 194, 鬼+7, 17 strokes, cangjie input 竹戈火月 (HIFB), four-corner 29212, composition ⿺鬼肖)

  1. mischievous, one-footed spirit that dwells in the mountains

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1462, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45841
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1995, character 37
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4433, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+9B48

Chinese

trad. 魈
simp. # 魈

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (肖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
梢 *sreːw
捎 *sreːw, *sew
筲 *sreːw
鞘 *sreːw, *slewɢs
艄 *sreːw
蛸 *sreːw, *sew
髾 *sreːw
輎 *sreːw
旓 *sreːw
弰 *sreːw
鮹 *sreːw, *sew
綃 *sreːw, *sew
颵 *sreːw
莦 *sreːw, *sew
娋 *sreːw, *sreːws
稍 *sreːws
哨 *sreːws, *sʰews, *sew
揱 *sreːwɢs, *slew, *sreːwɢ
潲 *sreːws
睄 *sreːws
悄 *sʰewʔ
俏 *sʰews
峭 *sʰews
陗 *sʰews
帩 *sʰews
誚 *zews
消 *sew
宵 *sew
霄 *sew
硝 *sew
銷 *sew
逍 *sew
魈 *sew
痟 *slew
焇 *sew
肖 *slew, *slews
韒 *slewɢs
趙 *l'ewʔ
箾 *seːw, *sleːw
踃 *seːw
削 *slewɢ
矟 *sreːwɢ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 魈
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 相邀切
Baxter sjew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/siᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/siɛu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/sjæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/siaw/
Li
Rong 		/siɛu/
Wang
Li 		/sĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/si̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xiāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		siu1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 魈
Reading # 1/1
No. 13747
Phonetic
component 		肖
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		宵
Old
Chinese 		/*sew/

Definitions

魈

  1. legendary mountain spirit
  2. Used in 山魈 (shānxiāo).

Japanese

Kanji

魈

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: しょう (shō)←せう (seu, historical)
  • Kan-on: しょう (shō)←せう (seu, historical)
  • Kun: すだま (sudama, 魈)

Korean

Hanja

魈 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so, Yale so)

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