魄

pò
#2,506 most
frequent character
(literary) soul

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

魄 has 鬼 ghost as the meaning part and 白 bái as the sound part. It first meant a disembodied spirit. The meaning grew to spirit and team spirit. Read tuò, the sense desperate or unrestrained was borrowed for its sound.

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Homophones

HSK 4
破pò
broken, damaged, worn out
迫pò
to force, to compel

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