Radical 194

鬼
193 ⿀ ◄	194	► ⿂ 195
Pinyin :	guǐ (= demon)
Zhuyin :	ㄍ ㄨ ㄟ ˇ
Hiragana :	お にoni
Kanji :	鬼 oni or 鬼 繞 kinyō
Hangul :	귀신
Sinocorean :	귀 kui
Codepoint :	U + 9B3C
Stroke sequence :

Radical 194 , meaning “ demon ”, is one of eight of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with ten strokes.

With 14 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

Radikal Demon only occupies 194th position in the long - character list of traditional radicals , which consists of 214 radicals. It can be found in a completely different place in modern abbreviation dictionaries. In the New Chinese-German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, for example, it is in 216th position.

In old reference works, the 鬼 radical is to be looked up under 10 lines, because in the upper area (next to the dot line) it consisted of 田 (= field) plus a new line going down to the right. Today this part consists of a 白 (= white) with a vertical line. The component now only consists of 9 lines.

The symbol already appears on the oracle bone and shows a kneeling human with a monster's head sitting on it. The curl with a tail in the first pictograms means the vortex of air that a flying ghost creates. Only later does the sign take on the meaning " ghost, demon " and develop into something terrible. That is why the names for foreigners were formed with 鬼. According to another interpretation, the symbol goes back to a rough drawing of a scarecrow.

Most of the signs ruled by 鬼 have to do with ghosts or the soul such as 魔 (= devil, demon), 魑 (= dark forces), 魂 (= soul), 魄 (= soul, energy). Laut acts as a sound carrier in the characters Marion (傀儡 = puppet), 愧 (惭愧 = to be ashamed), 瑰 (in 瑰丽 = beautiful), 嵬 (in 巍 Als = sublime).

Character combinations ruled by radical 194

demon

Strokes	character
+ 00	鬼
+ 03	鬽
+ 04	鬾 鬿 魀 魁 魂
+ 05	魃 魄 魅 魆
+ 06	魇
+ 07	魈 魉
+ 08	魊 魋 魌 魍 魎 魏
+10	魐
+11	魑 魒 魓 魔
+12	魕 魖
+14	魗 魘 魙

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals the radical 194 is coded under the code point number 12.225 (U + 2FC1).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 32 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 194  - Graphic representations of Radikal 194

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 194 on page 49