魘

See also 魇

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 厭 + semantic 鬼 (“devil”)

Han character

魘 (radical 194 鬼+14, 24 strokes, cangjie input 一大竹戈 (MKHI), four-corner 7121₃)

1. nightmare, bad dreams

References

• KangXi: page 1463, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45941
• Dae Jaweon: page 1997, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4438, character 6
• Unihan data for U+9B58

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Cantonese

Hanzi

魘 (simplified 魇, Yale yim2)

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Japanese

Kanji

魘

Readings

• On: えん (en), よう (yō)
• Kun: おそわれる (osowareru), おそう (osou), うなされる (unasareru)

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Korean

Hanja

魘 (hangeul 염, revised yeom, McCune-Reischauer yŏm, Yale yem)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

魘 (simplified 魇, pinyin jiàn (jian4), yǎn (yan3), Wade-Giles chien⁴, yen³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

魘 (yểm)