Origin

This character combines a religious or spiritual element on the left—the altar radical, which marks characters related to shrines and divine matters—with a sound hint on the right that tells you roughly how to pronounce it. The pairing suggests misfortune or calamity from a supernatural perspective, as if invoking an evil spirit or curse sent down from the gods. The left side anchors the meaning in the realm of the sacred and mysterious, while the right side is simply there to guide pronunciation.

AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).