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鬼 |
devil, ghost, sly, crafty
From top: death mask (accent ノ, field 田), legs 儿, nose 厶 The dead mask with legs and nose looks like a devil. |
丑 |
ugly, shameful, disgraceful, clown
Traditionally 醜, which shows alcohol 酉 and the devil 鬼. The devil was simplified to the ugly: 丑 |
愧 |
ashamed, remorse
Left: feeling 忄, right: devil 鬼 The feeling in face of the devil is ashamed and remorseful. |
魅 |
demon, devil, magic, to charm
Left: demon 鬼 (death mask [accent ノ, field 田], legs 儿, nose 厶), right: not yet 未 (The upper shorter branch 一 of the tree 木 is "not yet") The devil has not yet 'deviled'. |
魔 |
devil
Outside and top: hemp 麻 (The building 广 in the forest 林 is for the hemp), bottom: demon 鬼 (death mask [accent ノ, field 田], legs 儿, nose 厶>) Hemp is a demon like the devil. |
魂 |
soul, spirit
Left: cloud 云, right: devil 鬼 (death mask [accent ノ, Field 田], legs 儿, nose 厶) The cloud next to the devil is his soul. |
魄 |
soul, spirit, vigor
Left: white 白 (The shine ノ of the sun 日 makes it white.), right: demon/devil 鬼 The "white" devil determines your soul. |
魏 |
'Wei' (one of the Warring States)
Left: entrust 委 (Rice plants 禾 can women 女 be entrusted.), right: devil 鬼 For the rice plants, the women quarreled like devils in the state: 'Wei' during the warring states. |
瑰 |
extraordinary, (semi-precious stone)
Left: king, jade 王, right: devil 鬼 The jade of the devil is extraordinary. |
槐 |
Chinese scholar tree (Sophora japonica), Japanese pagoda tree
Left: tree 木, right: demon, devil 鬼 The tree of the deval is the: Chinese scholar tree |
巍 |
lofty, towering
Top: mountain 山, bottom: Wei-Dynasty 魏 (entrust 委 [Rice plants 禾 can women 女 be entrusted], devil 鬼) The mountains in the Wei-dynasty were lofty. |
魁 |
chief, head, outstanding, exceptional, stalwart
Left: devil, demon 鬼, right: measure of volume 斗(1 Dou = 10 l; stylised ladle with sth. in it) He is (strict) like a devil, but also distributes with a ladle: The chief. |
傀 |
puppet, strange, exotic
Left: person 亻, right: devil 鬼 (Often used in a puppet shows) The person of the devil is a puppet. |
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