Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 2530

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 魔

MC description : 果合一平戈明

ZIHUI: 7621 0235

Beijing: mo 12

Jinan: mǝ 12

Xi'an: mo 12

Taiyuan: mǝ 1

Hankou: mo 12

Chengdu: mo 12

Yangzhou: mo 12

Suzhou: mo 12

Wenzhou: mo_y 12

Changsha: mo 12

Shuangfeng: mû 12

Nanchang: mo 31

Meixian: mɔ 12

Guangzhou: mɔ 11

Xiamen: mɔ 12 (lit.); mɔ̃ 12

Chaozhou: mo 11

Fuzhou: mɔ 12

Shanghai: mo 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: muo 12

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Chinese characters :

Character: 魔

Modern (Beijing) reading: mó

Preclassic Old Chinese: mhā

Classic Old Chinese: mhā

Western Han Chinese: mhā

Eastern Han Chinese: mhā

Early Postclassic Chinese: mhō

Middle Postclassic Chinese: mhō

Late Postclassic Chinese: mhō

Middle Chinese: mwâ

English meaning : ghost, devil [Wei]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) злой дух, черт, дьявол; 2) чары; чарующий; волшебный, фантастический, сверхъестественный; мистика; черная магия; 3) обр. безумное пристрастие; 4) наваждение, дьявольщина; 5) помеха, задержка, препятствие

Comments: The word (*mhā in Late Old Chinese) is a contraction of 魔羅 *mhā-lā < Sanskr. māra 'spirit of death, evil ghost'. For *mh cf. Chaozhou mo¹, Guangzhou mɔ¹.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 194

Four-angle index: 7478

Vietnamese reading: ma

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