魄

魄 (radical 194, 鬼+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹日竹山戈 (HAHUI), four-corner 2661₃, composition ⿰白鬼)

• KangXi: page 1461, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45810
• Dae Jaweon: page 1995, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4431, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9B44

Related to 白 (OC *braːɡ) "white" (Schuessler, 2007).

魄

1. (religion, folklore) the po, the soul which does not leave the body after death, compared to 魂 (hún) which does.
2. soul; spirit
3. vigor
4. body
5. dark part of the moon

• 魂 (hún)

魄

1. sound of falling
2. Used in 魄莫.
3. Used in 旁魄.

魄

1. Only used in 落魄 (luòtuò).

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. a soul

• Go-on: ひゃく (hyaku); たく (taku)
• Kan-on: はく (haku); たく (taku)
• On: ばく (baku)
• Kun: たま (tama, 魄); たましい (tamashii, 魄しい)^{←たましひ (tamasifi, historical)}

Perhaps from 玉 (tama, “jewel”)

魄 (hiragana たま, rōmaji tama)

1. Alternative spelling of 魂 (“soul”)

From Middle Chinese 魄 (phæk)

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) は​く [háꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [ha̠kɯ̟ᵝ]

魄 (hiragana はく, rōmaji haku)

1. (religion, folklore) po (haku), the soul which does not leave the body after death, compared to hun (kon) which does.
   • 2004 June 15, Takahashi, Rumiko, “第だい１話わ　試し作さく [Chapter 1: Prototypes]”, in 犬いぬ夜や叉しゃ [Inuyasha], volume 35 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 8:

     魂 (こん)は心 (こころ)…つまり魂 (たましい)だ。そして魄 (はく)は体 (からだ)を動 (うご)かす力 (ちから)…

     Kon wa kokoro… Tsumari tamashī da. Soshite haku wa karada o ugokasu chikara…

     Kon is the heart… in other words, the soul. And haku is the force that moves the body…

   • 2004 June 15, Takahashi, Rumiko, “第だい１話わ　試し作さく [Chapter 1: Prototypes]”, in 犬いぬ夜や叉しゃ [Inuyasha], volume 35 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 8:

     魄 (はく)ってやつがあれば、魂 (たましい)のない死 (し)骸 (がい)でも動 (うご)くんだな。

     Hakutte yatsu ga are ba, tamashī no nai shigai demo ugokunda na.

     As long as it has this haku thing, even a soulless corpse can move.

• 魂 (こん)魄 (ぱく) (konpaku)

魄 (eum 백 (baek))

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魄: Hán Nôm readings: phách

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