魔

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魔 U+9B54, 魔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B54
← 魓
[U+9B53] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 魕 →
[U+9B55]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

魔 (Kangxi radical 194, 鬼+11, 21 strokes, cangjie input 戈金竹山戈 (ICHUI) or 戈木竹山戈 (IDHUI) or 戈木竹戈 (IDHI), four-corner 00213, composition ⿸麻鬼)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1462, character 67
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45906
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1997, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4436, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+9B54

Chinese[edit]

trad. 魔
simp. # 魔
2nd round simp. ⿸广⿸⿻丿日乚

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (麻) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
麻 *mraːl
痲 *mraːl
犘 *mraːl
縻 *mral
醿 *mral
爢 *mral
蘼 *mral, *mralʔ, *mrɯl
靡 *mralʔ
摩 *maːl, *maːls
魔 *maːl
磨 *maːl, *maːls
劘 *maːl
麽 *maːl
麼 *maːlʔ
塺 *maːls, *mɯːl
麾 *hmral

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *maːl) : phonetic 麻 (OC *mraːl) + semantic 鬼 (“demon”).

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of 魔羅 (MC ma la), from Sanskrit मार (māra, “killing; death; destroyer; demon”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 魔
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 莫婆切
Baxter ma
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/muɑ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/muɑ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/muɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mwa/
Li
Rong 		/muɑ/
Wang
Li 		/muɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/muɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mó
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mo4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 魔
Reading # 1/1
No. 8705
Phonetic
component 		麻
Rime
group 		歌
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		摩
Old
Chinese 		/*maːl/
Notes 梵譯māra，梁武帝改磨爲魔

Definitions[edit]

魔

  1. (Buddhism) mara (demon)
  2. devil; demon; evil spirit
  3. fiend; harmful or evil thing or person
  4. magic; the unnatural
  5. crazy; delusional, manic
  6. to be obsessed with; idolatry.

Synonyms[edit]

  • (devil):

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Shinjitai 魔
Kyūjitai
[1]
魔󠄁
魔+󠄁?
(Adobe-Japan1)
魔󠄃
魔+󠄃?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji[edit]

魔

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

⿸广マ, a Ryakuji for 魔, a phono-semantic simplification as 广 (radical) + マ (phonetic “ma” for on reading), also used for 摩; compare 機 and 議.
  1. demon, evil spirit
  2. sorcery, witchcraft

Readings[edit]

  • Go-on: ま (ma, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: ば (ba)

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

Etymology[edit]

Kanji in this term
魔
ま
Grade: S
goon

From Middle Chinese 魔 (MC ma).

Pronunciation[edit]

Affix[edit]

魔(ま) • (ma) 

  1. demon, devil, evil spirit, evil influence

References[edit]

  1. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 2387 (paper), page 1245 (digital)

Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Chinese 魔 (MC ma). Recorded as Middle Korean 마 (ma) (Yale: ma) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja[edit]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

魔 (eumhun 마귀 마 (magwi ma))

  1. Hanja form? of 마 (“demon”).

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

References[edit]

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

魔: Hán Việt readings: ma

  1. chữ Hán form of ma (“ghost”).
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