魂 — Chinese character
魂
hún
soul, spirit
- Pinyin
- hún
- Radical
- 194 ⿁ (Ghost)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 云 鬼
- Formation
- pictophonetic — spirit; meaning component 鬼; sound component 云
- Japanese
- 魂 as a kanji
Common words with 魂
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 灵魂 (靈魂) | líng hún | soul; spirit |
| 鬼魂 | guǐ hún | ghost |
| 销魂 (銷魂) | xiāo hún | ecstasy; rapture |
| 惊魂 (驚魂) | jīng hún | in a panicked state; frightened |
| 魂魄 | hún pò | soul |
| 亡魂 | wáng hún | soul of the deceased; departed spirit |
| 招魂 | zhāo hún | to call back the soul of sb who has died or is seriously ill; (fig.) to resurrect (an old system etc) |
| 冤魂 | yuān hún | ghost of one who died unjustly; departed spirit demanding vengeance for grievances |
| 神魂颠倒 (神魂顛倒) | shén hún diān dǎo | lit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom); infatuated and head over heels in love; fascinated |
| 失魂落魄 | shī hún luò pò | (idiom) dazed; beside oneself |
| 迷魂 | mí hún | to bewitch; to enchant |
| 神魂 | shén hún | mind; state of mind (often abnormal) |
English words written with 魂
魂 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 5
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi On Letting Alone
- Zhuangzi The Tao of God
- Zhuangzi Self-Conceit
- Zhuangzi Knowledge travels North
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.