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Kanji Detail for 魂 - "soul, heart, mind"

魂

  • Meaning

    魂 means "soul, heart, mind."

    1. Soul - Spirit; the essence residing in the body that governs the mind. "Kon" is yang, "haku" is yin energy. "Kon" governs spirit, "haku" governs body. Living people have both.

    2. Heart - Feelings; emotions; spirit.

  • Words using 魂

    • 鎮魂 ちんこん Listen repose of a soul; ceremony for the repose of a departed soul

  • Four-character idioms with 魂

    • 一球入魂 いっきゅうにゅうこん Listen putting one's heart and soul into each pitch
    • 和魂洋才 わこんようさい Listen Japanese spirit with Western learning
    • 和魂漢才 わこんかんさい Listen the Japanese spirit imbued with Chinese learning
    • 士魂商才 しこんしょうさい Listen having a samurai's spirit and a merchant's business sense
    • 霊魂不滅 れいこんふめつ Listen immortality of the soul

  • Origin of 魂

    云, rising vapour, lending the reading kon, beside 鬼, the spirit: the yang half of the old soul-pair, the part that rises when the body is left behind.

    How to remember it: Spirit 鬼 as rising steam 云 — the part of you that lifts: the soul.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: soul, heart, mind
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read こころ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 魂

    Given names 魂(こころ)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    soul; spirit

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    soul, spirit

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    old variant of 魂[hun2]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    soul, spirit

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    The counterpart of 魄. Also called 靈魂 or 魂靈. Actually refers to the spirit of a person. In life, the soul and spirit are united. In death, the soul and spirit separate. Traditionally, what is called 神 (god) or 鬼 (ghost) was considered to be made of the soul. Hence ethereal and invisible. | State of mind. As in describing joy or sorrow as 銷魂 (soul-consuming), 斷魂 (soul-breaking) and the like.

  • Onyomi

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    kon(コン) コン

  • Kunyomi

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    tama(たま) たま

    tamashii(たましい) たましい

  • Strokes

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    14 strokes

  • Radical

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    鬼 (oni・kinyo)

  • Related Keywords

    soul heart mind spirit essence consciousness core energy life force psyche anima ghost ethereal

Sentences including 魂

  • Do you think animals have souls?

  • The child is father to the man.

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