魄

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

• 𡳺 𩏳 𥶱

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

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 魂魄 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 魂魄 (Cantonese)
• Hun and po (English)

Historical forms of the character 魄
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan བླ (bla) and Burmese လိပ်ပြာ (lippra).

Related to 白 (OC *braːɡ, “white”) (Schuessler, 2007).

"illuminated part of the moon"

Wang (1923) in 《生霸死霸考》 supports the definition by examining textual traditions of the Chinese classics and archaeological evidences from the Western Zhou era (c. 11th–8th centuries BCE). Bronze script texts from the era commonly use the form 霸 (OC *praːɡs).

"dark part of the moon"

Chiefly found in some old dictionaries based on another textual tradition, traced by Wang (1923) to the calendrical innovations of Liu Xin and later Confucian "pseudepigraphy".

魄

1. (religion, folklore) the po, the soul which does not leave the body after death, compared to 魂 (hún) which does.
2. soul; spirit
3. vigor
4. body
5. (archaic, Chinese astronomy) bright, illuminated part of the moon
6. (obsolete, retroactively proscribed) dark part of the moon

• 魂 (hún)

魄

1. sound of falling
2. Used in 魄莫.
3. Used in 旁魄.

魄

1. Only used in 落魄 (luòtuò), alternative form of 落拓 (luòtuò)

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “魄”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 178.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. a soul

• Go-on: ひゃく (hyaku)、たく (taku)
• Kan-on: はく (haku)、たく (taku)
• On: ばく (baku)
• Kun: たま (tama, 魄)、たましい (tamashii, 魄しい)^{←たましひ (tamasifi, たましひ, historical)}

Perhaps from 玉 (tama, “jewel”)

魄(たま) • (tama) 

1. Alternative spelling of 魂 (“soul”)

 魂魄 on Japanese Wikipedia

From Middle Chinese 魄 (phæk).

• (Tokyo) はく (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

魄(はく) • (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, “第(だい)１話(わ)　試(し)作(さく) [Chapter 1: Prototypes]”, in 犬(いぬ)夜(や)叉(しゃ) [Inuyasha], volume 35 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, 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…

   • 2004 June 15, Rumiko Takahashi, “第(だい)１話(わ)　試(し)作(さく) [Chapter 1: Prototypes]”, in 犬(いぬ)夜(や)叉(しゃ) [Inuyasha], volume 35 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 8:

     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。

     Haku tte yatsu ga areba, tamashī no nai shigai de mo ugoku n da na.

     As long as it has this haku thing, even a soulless corpse can move.

• 魂(こん)魄(ぱく) (konpaku)

From Middle Chinese 魄 (MC phaek).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): ~
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

魄

Wikisource

魄 (eumhun 넋 백 (neok baek))

1. hanja form^? of 백 (“soul; spirit”)

From Middle Chinese 魄 (MC thak).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

魄 (eumhun 영락할 탁 (yeongnakhal tak))

1. hanja form^? of 탁 (“to wither and fall”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

魄: Hán Nôm readings: phách

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