魄

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

vigor

HSK 7

Abstract →Qualities

pò

ハク、タク

たましい

백

Phonosemantic compound. 鬼 represents the meaning and 白 represents the sound.

Components

鬼 ghost+ 白 white =

魄 vigor

鬼 Meaning component

guǐ ghost

白 Phonetic component

bái white

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Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

魄

Regular

Modern

Chinese

魄 [pò]

soul; mortal soul, i.e. attached to the body

Japanese

魄はく同音

noun Yin energy; spirit

魂、霊、魄 (rare) たましい、たま同音

noun

soul; spirit; mind
willpower; vitality
something as important as one's own life; something invaluable

suffix

inherent spirit of something; state of mind (usu. as ～だましい)

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

魂の吐息を感じ始めた。

I'm feeling the breath of life.

CHINESE WORDS (32)

惊心动魄 [jīngxīndòngpò] #26,499

shaking one to the core

惊心动魄 [jīngxīndòngpò] #26,499

shaking one to the core

魂飞魄散 [húnfēipòsàn] #34,402

lit. the soul flies away and scatters (idiom)

魂飞魄散 [húnfēipòsàn] #34,402

lit. the soul flies away and scatters (idiom)

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JAPANESE WORDS (11)

落ちぶれる [おちぶれる] #18,135

to come down in the world

魂魄 [こんぱく] #36,355

soul

時鳥 [ホトトギス] #69,856

lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

落魄 [らくはく] #76,613

being reduced to poverty

落魄の身 [らくはくのみ] #244,638

(being in) reduced circumstances

子規 [しき]

lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

死魄 [しはく]

waning moon

沓手鳥 [くつてどり]

lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

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KOREAN WORDS (3)

being scared to death; being frightened out of one's wits