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Ghost Festival on 15th day of 7th lunar month when offerings are made to the deceased
specter / apparition / ghost
(of a ghost) to make strange things happen / to act up / to act behind the scenes / to make mischief / odd / to misbehave (euphemism for having sex)
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  *鬼* | 鬼* | *鬼
disembodied spirit; ghost; devil / (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc / sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 詭|诡) / one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy
HSK 5
to write as substitute for sb / a ghost writer / plagiarism
lit. to appear and disappear unpredictably like a spirit or a ghost (idiom) / fig. elusive
variable / changeable / fickle / impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya) / ghost taking away the soul after death / to pass away / to die
ghost town
(dialect) (loanword) to die; to give up the ghost
ghost story
Holy Ghost / Holy Spirit
wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them (idiom) / person who has no family or friends to rely on
to die (idiom) / to breathe one's last / to give up the ghost
In Search of the Supernatural, compilation of legends about spirits, ghosts and other supernatural phenomena, written and compiled by 干寶|干宝 in Jin dynasty
demons and ghosts / ghouls and bogies
ghost world
supernatural being (such as a demon, monster, ghost, spirit, gremlin etc)
Ghost Festival on 15th day of 7th lunar month when offerings are made to the deceased
(physiology) afterimage; (photography) motion blur; (computer screen) ghosting; (fig.) lingering memory
ghost of one who died unjustly / departed spirit demanding vengeance for grievances
posthumous or ghost marriage (in which at least one of the bride and groom is dead)
Huang Fugui, ghost of legends who provided Liu Juanzi with his magical recipes 劉涓子鬼遺方|刘涓子鬼遗方
ghost
to play tricks / to cheat / to get up to mischief / to become a ghost / to give up the ghost
to come and go / to roam about (mostly unseen) / (of a ghost) to haunt (a place) / (of a criminal) to stalk (the streets) / (of the sun) to rise and set
to feed the starving ghosts (i.e. offer sacrifice to protect the departed spirit)
rarity / rare delicacy / foreign matter / alien body / the dead / ghost / monstrosity / alien life-form
ghost movie
to float about / to flutter (in the breeze) / (dialect) gay guy / (Tw) ghost
to wail like ghosts and howl like wolves (idiom)
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  *伥* | 伥* | *伥
(bound form) ghost of sb devoured by a tiger who helps the tiger devour others
to give food (as a charity) / "feeding the hungry ghosts" (Buddhist ceremony)
ghost / spirit (of the dead)
underworld soldier; ghost soldier
lit. ghosts are afraid of evil too / an evil person fears someone even more evil (idiom)
supernatural novel / novel of ghosts and goblins
to tell fox ghost stories around a bonfire and incite rebellion / an uprising is afoot (idiom)
ghost / spirit
the hidden and the visible; that which can be seen and that which cannot; darkness and light; night and day; wisdom and ignorance; evil and good; the living and the dead; men and ghosts
king cobra or ghost chili (Naga jolokia)
(coll.) ghost (Tw)
boisterous live show held during the Ghost Festival 中元節|中元节 in Singapore and other parts of Southeast Asia
Ghosts' festival on 15th day of 7th moon
ghost of sb devoured by a tiger who helps the tiger devour others
to encounter a ghost or supernatural being / (coll.) to experience sth strange, eerie or unlucky
sb who is always hungry / glutton / (Buddhism) hungry ghost
selective blindness caused by a ghost, whereby one fails to notice obvious dangers
ghost marriage (in which one or both parties are dead)
"white ghost", derogatory term for caucasians (Cantonese)
ghost of a person who died by hanging / hanged person / (coll.) inchworm / hangman (word game)
ghost town
fox lady / in folk stories, a beautiful girl who will seduce you then reveal herself as a ghost
Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui 黃父鬼|黄父鬼
Five ghosts mock the judge, or Five ghosts resist judgment (title of folk opera, idiom); important personage mobbed by a crowd of ne'er-do-wells


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