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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 194 +8, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹戈月廿女 (HIBTV), four-corner 27212, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1462, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45869
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1996, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4434, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+9B4D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*maːŋ
*maːŋ, *maŋ
*maːŋ
*maːŋ
*maːŋ, *maːŋs
*maːŋ, *maŋs
*maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
*maːŋ, *maŋ
*maːŋ, *maŋ
*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
*hmaːŋ
*hmaːŋ
*hmaːŋ
*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
*hmaːŋʔ
*smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
*maŋ
*maŋ, *maŋs
*maŋ
*maŋ, *maŋs
*maŋ
*maŋ
*maŋ, *maŋs
*mlaŋʔ
*mlaŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*mlaŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋs
*mraːŋ
*mraːŋ
*mraːŋ
*mraːŋ
*mraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maŋʔ) : semantic  (ghost) + phonetic  (OC *mlaŋʔ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (106)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mʉɐŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/mʷiɐŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/miuɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/muaŋX/
Li
Rong
/miuaŋX/
Wang
Li
/mĭwaŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/miwaŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
wǎng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 12682
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*maŋʔ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. demon; mountain spirit

Compounds

  • 打脊魍魎打脊魍魉
  • 瞞魍魎瞒魍魉

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(mang) (hangeul , revised mang, McCune-Reischauer mang, Yale mang)

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