page_title: Radical 194
section_title: Derived characters
hierarchical_section_title: Radical 194 / Derived characters
context_page_description: Radical 194 is one of eight Kangxi radicals written with ten strokes.
  The character is historically composed of 儿 "legs", 田 representing a large demon's head and a curl looking similar to 厶 taken to represent a swirl of vapour, or a demon's tail.
  The character can be traced to the oracle bone script, where it depicts a man kneeling on a monster head.
  Most of the characters derived from the radical have meanings related to ghosts or souls, including 魔 "devil, demon", 魑 "black magic", 魘 "nightmare", 魄 "soul". In some signs, however, the radical is present purely as a phonetic marker, for example in 魏, the State of Wei during the Spring and Autumn period.
caption: seal script character