Kanji1 / 21
魔 kanji
witch, demon, evil spirit
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 21
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
マ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 魔
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —通り魔殺人random murder; spree killing; indiscriminate killing
- —通り魔事件random attack; indiscriminate attack; random act of violence
- —魔術的経済学voodoo economics
- —魔法のキノコmagic mushrooms
- —悪魔の３歳児threenager; child in the terrifying threes
- —邪魔を入れるto interfere; to hinder; to obstruct
- —魔女の宅急便Kiki's Delivery Service (1989 animated film)
- —ラプラスの魔物Laplace's demon
- —睡魔に襲われるto be extremely sleepy; to be at the brink of falling asleep
- —邪魔にならないunobtrusive; not in the way
- —ラプラスの悪魔Laplace's demon (hypothetical omniscient observer)
- —オズの魔法使いThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz (novel by L. F. Baum, 1900); The Wizard of Oz (film, 1939)
- —ライオンと魔女The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950 novel by C. S. Lewis)
- —魔法のじゅうたんmagic carpet; flying carpet
- —秋葉原通り魔事件Akihabara massacre (June 8, 2008)
- —小悪魔コード進行koakuma chord progression
- —プラダを着た悪魔The Devil Wears Prada (2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger; 2006 film)
- —マクスウェルの魔物Maxwell's demon
- —ミラベルと魔法だらけの家Encanto (2021 Disney film)
- —借りる時の地蔵顔、済す時の閻魔顔people look friendly when they ask for a loan but not so much when they repay it; when borrowing (the money), the face of the (bodhisattva) Kshitigarbha; when returning it, the face of the (hell king) Yama