mó
demon
Phonosemantic compound. 鬼 represents the meaning and 麻 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 33.6537% of movies
775th most common character in movies
1180th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 20 |
Unicode | U+9B54 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“魔，鬼也。从鬼，麻聲。” |
Sources
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