mèi
kind of forest demon
A forest 未 demon 鬼; 未 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mr[ə][t]-s | mijH | mèi | 魑魅 trhje.mijH a kind of demon |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 13.5672% of movies
1821st most common character in movies
2662nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+9B45 |
Shuowen | “鬽，老精物也。从鬼、彡。彡，鬼毛。魅，或从未聲。，古文。，籀文，从彖首，从尾省聲。” |
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