魄 · pò
vigor; body; dark part of moon
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
vigor; body; dark part of moon
- Mandarin
- pò
- Cantonese
- paak3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 魄 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 백
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+9B44
- Radical
- 鬼 · 194
- Strokes
- 14 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
14 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 魄
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 白 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 白聲
Line 13206 · ⿰白鬼 · 白聲 · source reference 3460040
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- thak · 他各 反切 · #3571
- Middle Chinese
- phaek · 普伯 反切 · #3613
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 18493 · thak = 宕開一入唐透 · phaek = 梗開二入庚滂
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- pò
- kCantonese
- paak3
- kDefinition
- vigor; body; dark part of moon
- kTotalStrokes
- 14
- kRSUnicode
- 194.5
- kGradeLevel
- 6
- kTGH
- 2013:3129
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- pò,bó,tuò 74431.090
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- bó 0084.110 · pò 0887.020 · tuò 1175.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- pò 287.140
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- pò粵paak3 tuò粵tok3 bó粵bok6
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 他各 普伯
- Kangxi positions
- 1461.280
- Guangyun positions
- 506.08 511.51
- GSR references
- 0782o
- Cangjie
- HAHI
- Four-corner
- 2661.3