Chinese Character Wiki

魃

bá

drought demon

Components
鬼 meaning component

鬼  Meaning component

guǐ

  

ghost

demon

犮 sound component

犮  Sound component

bá, quǎn

  

pull up

Evolution

魃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
魃 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

魃  

bá

drought demon

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5262nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+9B43

Shuowen

“魃，旱鬼也。从鬼，犮聲。《周禮》有赤魃氏，除牆屋之物也。《詩》曰：‘旱魃為虐’”


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