Chinese Character Wiki

魄

pò

vigor

Phonosemantic compound. 鬼 represents the meaning and 白 represents the sound.

Components
鬼 meaning component

鬼  Meaning component

guǐ

  

ghost

白 sound component

白  Sound component

bái

  

white

Evolution

魄 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
魄 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
魄 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

魄  

pò

vigor; body; dark part of moon; soul; mortal soul, i.e. attached to the body

Most common words with 魄
Freq.
Word
Meaning

魄

soul

惊心动魄

shaking one to the core

魄力

courage

魂魄

soul

气魄

spirit

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰˤrak

phaek

pò

bodily form or soul


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.4027% of movies

2943rd most common character in movies

2511th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+9B44

Shuowen

“魄，陰神也。从鬼，白聲。”


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