Radical 194
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.
Derived characters
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鬼 |
| +03 |
鬽 |
| +04 |
鬾 鬿 魀 魁 魂 |
| +05 |
魃 魄 魅 魆 |
| +06 |
魇 |
| +07 |
魈 魉 |
| +08 |
魊 魋 魌 魍 魎 魏 |
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魐 |
| +11 |
魑 魒 魓 魔 |
| +12 |
魕 魖 |
| +14 |
魗 魘 魙
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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.
- 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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95 玄 96 玉 97 瓜 98 瓦 99 甘 100 生 101 用 102 田 103 疋 104 疒 105 癶 106 白 107 皮 108 皿 109 目 110 矛 111 矢 112 石 113 示 114 禸 115 禾 116 穴 117 立
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187 馬 188 骨 189 高 190 髟 191 鬥 192 鬯 193 鬲 194 鬼
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195 魚 196 鳥 197 鹵 198 鹿 199 麥 200 麻
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