# 魃

| 魃 | U+9B43, &#39747; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B43 |
| ← 魂 [U+9B42] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 魄 → [U+9B44] |

## Translingual
### Han character

魃 (Kangxi radical 194, 鬼+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹戈戈大水 (HIIKE) or 竹戈戈大大 (HIIKK), four-corner 2321$_4$, composition ⿺鬼犮)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1461, character 24
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45806
* Dae Jaweon: page 1995, character 20
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4430, character 5
* Unihan data for U+9B43

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 軷 | *boːds, *boːd |
| 韍 | *bruds, *pud |
| 祓 | *pods, *pʰud |
| 蛂 | *blɯːd |
| 拔 | *bruːd, *boːd, *bod |
| 菝 | *bruːd, *boːd |
| 袚 | *poːd |
| 茇 | *poːd |
| 盋 | *poːd |
| 帗 | *poːd, *pud |
| 跋 | *boːd |
| 魃 | *boːd |
| 䣮 | *boːd |
| 馛 | *boːd |
| 炦 | *boːd |
| 颰 | *boːd, *pod |
| 妭 | *boːd |
| 犮 | *boːd |
| 胈 | *boːd |
| 鈸 | *boːd |
| 苃 | *boːd |
| 坺 | *boːd, *bod |
| 髮 | *pod |
| 冹 | *pod, *pud |
| 瞂 | *bod |
| 紱 | *pud |
| 黻 | *pud |
| 翇 | *pud |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): bá (ba$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): baat$^6$ / bat$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: bá
*** Zhuyin: ㄅㄚˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: bá
*** Wade–Giles: pa$^2$
*** Yale: bá
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bar
*** Palladius: ба (ba)
*** Sinological IPA : /pä³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: baat$^6$ / bat$^6$
*** Yale: baaht / baht
*** Cantonese Pinyin: baat$^9$ / bat$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bad$^6$ / bed$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /paːt̚²/, /pɐt̚²/
* Middle Chinese: bat
Rime :
| Character | 魃 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 末 (64) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 蒲撥切 |
| Baxter | bat |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /buɑt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /bʷɑt̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /buɑt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /bwat̚/ |
| Li Rong | /buɑt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /buɑt̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /bʱuɑt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | bó |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | but$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*boːd/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 魃 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 137 |
| Phonetic component | 犮 |
| Rime group | 月 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 跋 |
| Old Chinese | /*boːd/ |

### Definitions

魃
* drought demon
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Hàn jì dàshèn, dídí shān chuān. Hànbá wèi nüè, rú tán rú fén. [Pinyin]
    The drought is excessive; - Parched are the hills, and the streams are dried. The demon of drought exercises its oppression. As if scattering flames and fire.
    From: The Classic of Mountains and Seas
    Bá bùdé fù shàng, suǒjū bù yǔ. [Pinyin]
    Drought-Daemon could not go back up, so where she dwells there's no rain.

#### Compounds

* 女魃
* 旱魃 (hànbá)
* 旱魃為虐／旱魃为虐

### References

* “魃”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: ばち (bachi)、ばつ (batsu)
* Kan-on: はつ (hatsu)
* Kun: ひでり (hideri)

## Korean
### Hanja

魃 • (bal) (hangeul 발, revised bal, McCune–Reischauer pal, Yale pal)
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