魂

魂 U+9B42, 魂
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B42
← 魁
[U+9B41] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 魃 →
[U+9B43]

Translingual

Han character

魂 (radical 194, 鬼+4, 14 strokes, cangjie input 一戈竹戈 (MIHI), four-corner 16713, composition ⿰云鬼)

References

  • KangXi: page 1461, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45787
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1994, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4428, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9B42

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 魂

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 魂
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (云) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
魂 *ɢuːn
沄 *ɢuːn, *ɢun
忶 *ɢuːn, *ɢuns
囩 *ɢun
夽 *ŋunʔ
雲 *ɢun
芸 *ɢun
耘 *ɢun
妘 *ɢun
紜 *ɢun
云 *ɢun
耺 *ɢun
蕓 *ɢun
澐 *ɢun
橒 *ɢun
抎 *ɢunʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢuːn) : phonetic 云 (OC *ɢun) + semantic 鬼.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 魂
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 戸昆切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦuən/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦuon/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwən/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuən/
Wang
Li		 /ɣuən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣuən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 hún
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 魂
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 hún
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hwon ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[m.]qʷˤə[n]/
English spiritual soul

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 魂
Reading # 1/1
No. 16353
Phonetic
component		 云
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 䰟
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢuːn/

Definitions

魂

  1. (religion, folklore) the hun, the soul which goes to heaven, as opposed to the 魄 (pò), which goes down to the earth with the body at death.
  2. soul; spirit
  3. mood
  4. the lofty spirit of a nation or people

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

魂

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. soul
  2. spirit

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
魂
たましい
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Perhaps from the same source as 玉 (“jewel”) and 魄.

Pronunciation

Noun

魂 (hiragana たましい, rōmaji tamashī, historical hiragana たましひ)

  1. (religion, folklore) a soul

Korean

Hanja

魂 • (hon) (hangeul 혼, revised hon, McCune–Reischauer hon, Yale hon)

  1. soul, spirit

Vietnamese

Han character

魂 (hồn, hun, hùn)

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