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鬼
← 193
Radical 194 (U+2FC1)
195 →
鬼 (U+9B3C) "ghost, demon"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:guǐ
Bopomofo:ㄍㄨㄟˇ
Wade–Giles:kuei3
Cantonese Yale:gwai2
Jyutping:gwai2
Japanese Kana:キ ki (on'yomi)
おに oni (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:귀 gwi
Hán-Việt:quỷ, khuỷu, quẽ, quỉ
Names
Japanese name(s):鬼/おに oni
鬼繞/きにょう kinyō
Hangul:귀신 gwisin
Stroke order animation

Radical 194 or radical ghost (鬼部) meaning "ghost" or "demon" is one of the 8 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 10 strokes.

鬼 (9 strokes in Simplified Chinese) is also the 184th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

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The character is historically composed of 儿 "legs", 田 representing a large demon's head and a curl looking similar to 厶 taken to represent a swirl of vapour, or a demon's tail.

The character can be traced to the oracle bone script, where it depicts a man kneeling on a monster head.

Derived characters

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StrokesCharacters
+0鬼
+3鬽 (=魅)
+4鬾 鬿 魀 魁 魂
+5魃 魄 魅 魆
+6魇SC (=魘)
+7魈 魉SC (=魎)
+8魊 魋 魌 魍 魎 魏
+10魐
+11魑 魒 魓 魔
+12魕 魖
+14魗 魘 魙

Most of the characters derived from the radical have meanings related to ghosts or souls, including 魔 "devil, demon", 魑 "black magic", 魘 "nightmare", 魄 "soul". In some signs, however, the radical is present purely as a phonetic marker, for example in 魏, the State of Wei during the Spring and Autumn period.

Variant forms

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Kangxi Dict.
Trad. Chinese (TW/HK/MO)
Japanese
Korean
Mainland China
鬼 鬼

Literature

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  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
  • Li, Leyi: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7-5619-0204-2
  • Harbaugh, Rick, Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary, Yale University Press (1998), ISBN 978-0-9660750-0-7.
  • Childs-Johnson, Elizabeth (江伊莉), 甲骨文的“鬼”与假面具 (The Gui-Spirit in Oracle Bone Inscriptions), International Conference Celebrating the 95th Anniversary of the Discovery of Oracle Bone Inscriptions", Anyang, China, 1994.

See also

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