魃

魃 U+9B43, 魃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B43 ← 魂 [U+9B42] CJK Unified Ideographs 魄 → [U+9B44]

Translingual

Han character

魃 (Kangxi radical 194, 鬼+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹戈戈大水 (HIIKE) or 竹戈戈大大 (HIIKK), four-corner 2321₄, composition ⿺鬼犮)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1461, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45806
• Dae Jaweon: page 1995, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4430, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9B43

Chinese

trad.		魃
simp. #		魃

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (犮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
軷	*boːds, *boːd
韍	*bruds, *pud
祓	*pods, *pʰud
蛂	*blɯːd
拔	*bruːd, *boːd, *bod
菝	*bruːd, *boːd
袚	*poːd
茇	*poːd
盋	*poːd
帗	*poːd, *pud
跋	*boːd
魃	*boːd
䣮	*boːd
馛	*boːd
炦	*boːd
颰	*boːd, *pod
妭	*boːd
犮	*boːd
胈	*boːd
鈸	*boːd
苃	*boːd
坺	*boːd, *bod
髮	*pod
冹	*pod, *pud
瞂	*bod
紱	*pud
黻	*pud
翇	*pud

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bá (ba²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baat⁶, bat⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bá
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bá
    • Wade–Giles: pa²
    • Yale: bá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bar
    • Palladius: ба (ba)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baat⁶, bat⁶
    • Yale: baaht, baht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baat⁹, bat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bad⁶, bed⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːt̚²/, /pɐt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: bat

Rime
Character	魃
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	桓 (64)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蒲撥切
Baxter	bat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/bʷɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/buɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bwat̚/
Li Rong	/buɑt̚/
Wang Li	/buɑt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱuɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bó
Expected Cantonese Reflex	but6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*boːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	魃
Reading #	1/1
No.	137
Phonetic component	犮
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	跋
Old Chinese	/*boːd/

Definitions

魃

1. drought demon

   • 旱既大甚、滌滌山川。旱魃為虐、如惔如焚。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     旱既大甚、涤涤山川。旱魃为虐、如惔如焚。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Hàn jì dàshèn, dídí shān chuān. Hànbá wèi nüè, rú tán rú fén. [Pinyin]

     The drought is excessive; - Parched are the hills, and the streams are dried. The demon of drought exercises its oppression. As if scattering flames and fire.

   • 魃不得復上，所居不雨。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     魃不得复上，所居不雨。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Mountains and Seas

     Bá bùdé fù shàng, suǒjū bù yǔ. [Pinyin]

     Drought-Daemon could not go back up, so where she dwells there's no rain.

Compounds

• 女魃
• 旱魃 (hànbá)
• 旱魃為虐／旱魃为虐

 

References

• “魃”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

魃

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ばち (bachi); ばつ (batsu)
• Kan-on: はつ (hatsu)
• Kun: ひでり (hideri)

Korean

Hanja

魃 • (bal) (hangeul 발, revised bal, McCune–Reischauer pal, Yale pal)

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