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Kanji Detail for 倀 - "mad, ghost"
倀
- Meaning
倀 means "mad, ghost."
Mad - To go crazy; to lose one's mind.
Ghost - Name of a ghost (Changui).
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
ghost of one devoured by tiger
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
bewildered; rash, wildly
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
(bound form) ghost of sb devoured by a tiger who helps the tiger devour others
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
the ghost of one devoured by a tiger
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Walking wildly without knowing where to go. Such as 倀倀無所之. The expression originates from (Book of Rites). | According to old legends, when a tiger kills a person, the soul doesn't go elsewhere but serves the tiger, called 倀. See (Bencao). Hence helping evil is called 為虎作倀 (serve as a tiger's ghost).
- Onyomi
- Kunyomi
- Strokes
- Radical
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