Radical 194
| 鬼 | ||
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| 鬼 (U+9B3C) "ghost, demon" | ||
| Pronunciations | ||
| Pinyin: | guǐ | |
| Bopomofo: | ㄍㄨㄟˇ | |
| Wade–Giles: | kuei3 | |
| Cantonese Yale: | gwai2 | |
| Jyutping: | gwai2 | |
| Japanese Kana: | キ, おに ki, oni | |
| Sino-Korean: | 귀 gwi | |
| Names | ||
| Japanese name(s): | 鬼 oni 鬼繞 kinyō | |
| Hangul: | 귀신 gwisin | |
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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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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.
- Leyi Li: “Tracing the Roots of Chinese Characters: 500 Cases”. Beijing 1993, ISBN 978-7561902042
- Rick Harbaugh, Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary, Yale University Press (1998), ISBN 9780966075007.[1]
- Elizabeth Childs-Johnson (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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