魑

魑 U+9B51, 魑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B51 ← 魐 [U+9B50] CJK Unified Ideographs 魒 → [U+9B52]

Translingual

Han character

魑 (Kangxi radical 194, 鬼+11, 21 strokes, Cangjie input 竹戈卜山月 (HIYUB), four-corner 2021₂, composition ⿺鬼离)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1462, character 61
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45901
• Dae Jaweon: page 1997, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4436, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9B51

Chinese

trad.		魑
simp. #		魑
alternative forms		螭 䬜 䄜 𩳩

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 魑
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (离) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
謧	*reːl, *rel
璃	*reːl, *rel
離	*reːls, *rel, *rels
縭	*rel
离	*rel, *r̥ʰel
醨	*rel
樆	*rel
褵	*rel
漓	*rel
黐	*rel, *r̥ʰel
籬	*rel
灕	*rel
蘺	*rel
攡	*rel
魑	*r̥ʰel
螭	*r̥ʰel
摛	*r̥ʰel

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *r̥ʰel): semantic 鬼 (“ghost”) + phonetic 离 (OC *rel, *r̥ʰel).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *n-d-raj (“demon; evil spirit; ghost”) (STEDT). Compare perhaps Burmese သရဲ (sa.rai:, “ghost”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chī (chi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ci¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chī
    • Zhuyin: ㄔ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chih
    • Wade–Giles: chʻih¹
    • Yale: chr̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chy
    • Palladius: чи (či)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɻ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ci¹
    • Yale: chī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: trhje

Rime
Character	魑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	徹 (10)
Final (韻)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	丑知切
Baxter	trhje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈʰˠiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʰᵚiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶʰiɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈʰjiə̆/
Li Rong	/ȶʰje/
Wang Li	/ȶʰǐe/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȶʰie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ci1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*r̥aj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*r̥ʰel/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	魑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chī
Middle Chinese	‹ trhje ›
Old Chinese	/*r̥aj/
English	demon
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	魑
Reading #	1/1
No.	7795
Phonetic component	离
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	摛
Old Chinese	/*r̥ʰel/

Definitions

魑

1. (mythology) used in 魑魅 (chīmèi)

Compounds

• 山魑
• 魑魅 (chīmèi)
• 魑魅魍魎 / 魑魅魍魉 (chīmèi wǎngliǎng)

Japanese

Kanji

魑

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. Mountain spirits

Readings

• Go-on: ち (chi)
• Kan-on: ち (chi)
• Kun: すだま (sudama)

Compounds

• 魑魅(すだま) (sudama); or 魑魅(ちみ) (chimi)
• 魑魅魍魎(ちみもうりょう) (chimimōryō)

References

• “^▲魑”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

魑 (eum 리 (ri) or (word-initial) 이 (i))

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Hanja

魑 (eum 치 (chi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

魑: Hán Nôm readings: si

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References

• Nom Foundation