- Radical 194
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"鬼" redirects here. For other uses, see 鬼 (disambiguation).
鬼 Radical 194 (U+2FC1) 鬼 (U+9B3C) "ghost, demon" Pinyin: guǐ Bopomofo: ㄍㄨㄟˇ Wade–Giles: kuei3 Jyutping: gwai2 Cantonese Yale: gwai2 Hiragana: キ, おに ki, oni Kanji: 鬼 oni
鬼繞 kinyōHangul: 귀신 gwisin Sino-Korean: 귀 gwi Radical 194 (鬼 Unicode U+9B3C, pinyin guǐ meaning "ghost or demon") is one of eight out of the total 214 Kangxi radicals written with ten strokes.
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.
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 Three Kingdoms period.
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strokes characters +0 鬼 +3 鬽 +4 鬾 鬿 魀 魁 魂 +5 魃 魄 魅 魆 +6 魇 +7 魈 魉 +8 魊 魋 魌 魍 魎 魏 +10 魐 +11 魑 魒 魓 魔 +12 魕 魖 +14 魗 魘 魙 Literature
- Fazzioli, Edoardo. Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0896597741.
- Li, Leyi: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7561902042
- Harbaugh, Rick, Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary, Yale University Press (1998), ISBN 9780966075007.[1]
- 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.
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Chinese radicals according to the Kangxi Dictionary 1 stroke 2 strokes 3 strokes 4 strokes 5 strokes 6 strokes 7 strokes 8 strokes 9 strokes 176 面 177 革 178 韋 179 韭 180 音 181 頁 182 風 183 飛 184 食 185 首 186 香10 strokes 187 馬 188 骨 189 高 190 髟 191 鬥 192 鬯 193 鬲 194 鬼11 strokes 12 strokes 13 strokes 14 strokes 15 strokes 211 齒16 strokes 17 strokes 214 龠Categories:- Kangxi radicals
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