Translingual

Han character

霊 (radical 173 雨+7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一月一一金 (MBMMC), four-corner 1010₂, composition ⿳⻗一亚)

1. spiritual world
2. spirit, soul
3. miraculous, mysterious

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1375, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42309
• Dae Jaweon: page 1884, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4063, character 15
• Unihan data for U+970A

Chinese

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 靈)

1. soul, spirit

Readings

• Goon: りょう (ryō), (historical) りやう (ryau)
• Kan’on: れい (rei)
• Kun: たま (tama), すだま (sudama), ち (chi), み (mi)

Compounds

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 靈 ‎(leng).

Pronunciation

• On'yomi: Kan'on
• (Tokyo) れ​い [réꜜè] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ɺ̠e̞ː]

Noun

霊 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 靈, hiragana れい, romaji rei)

1. ghost

Synonyms

• 幽霊 (ゆうれい) ‎(yūrei), 死霊 (しりょう) ‎(shiryō), 死霊 (しれい) ‎(shirei), お化 (ば)け ‎(obake)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) た​ま [táꜜmà] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠ma̠]

Noun

霊 ‎(shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 靈, hiragana たま, romaji tama)

1. a soul, a spirit

Synonyms

References

1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3