魔 — witch, demon, evil spirit

ま魔 witch

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 21 strokes

U+9B54 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1514 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #2178 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

witch
demon
evil spirit

word

ま ma On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

魔(ま) ma demon 邪(じゃ) 魔(ま) jama hindrance 魔(ま) 法(ほう) mahou magic 悪(あく) 魔(ま) akuma devil 魔(ま) 女(じょ) majo witch 魔(ま) 術(じゅつ) majutsu magic 魔(ま) 法(ほう) 使(つか) い mahoutsukai wizard

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

あさ麻 hemp #200

おに鬼 ghost #194

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#194 鬼 ghost