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魂

hún

soul

Phonosemantic compound. 鬼 represents the meaning and 云 represents the sound. Simplified form of 䰟.

Components
鬼 meaning component

鬼  Meaning component

guǐ

  

ghost

云 sound component

云  Sound component

yún

  

clouds

Evolution

魂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
魂 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
魂 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

魂  

hún

soul, spirit; soul; spirit; immortal soul, i.e. that can be detached from the body

魂 (䰟) 

hún

old variant of 魂[hún]

Most common words with 魂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

灵魂

soul

魂

soul

鬼魂

ghost

销魂

ecstasy

惊魂

frightened

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[m.]qʷˤə[n]

hwon

hún

spiritual soul


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 25.1321% of movies

1058th most common character in movies

1348th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+9B42

Shuowen

“魂，陽氣也。从鬼，云聲。”


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