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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
drunkard
HSK 5
to make mischief / to play tricks
HSK 7-9
devil
HSK 7-9
devils / refers to 日本鬼子, wartime term insult for Japanese
absurd / strange / (interj.) curse it! / to hell with it!
haunted house
supernatural beings
little demon (term of endearment for a child) / mischievous child / imp
demon; evil spirit
will-o'-the-wisp / jack-o'-lantern
coward
evil spirit / sneaky / secretive
leech / bloodsucking vermin / vampire (translated European notion) / fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
to have secret motives / to have a guilty conscience
ghost story
lit. with money, you can get a devil to turn a millstone (idiom) / fig. with money, you can get anything done; money talks
lecher / pervert
miser / penny-pincher
malicious spirit; devil
drunkard
haunted
(coll.) youtiao (deep-fried breadstick)
miser; penny-pincher
evil spirit / devil
traitor / collaborator with the enemy
disgusting person / slob
creative genius
wry face / to grimace / to pull a face / comic face / face mask / devil mask
ghost of a person who died by hanging / hanged person / (coll.) inchworm / hangman (word game)
lie / false words / nonsense / CL:
to be obsessed / to be possessed
ghost
glutton; greedy pig
hobgoblin / bogey / phantom
nonsense / humbug / bunk / bullshit
Devil's Island in French Guiana, a former penal colony (1852-1953)
to tell one lie after another (idiom) / to talk nonsense / bogus story
scapegoat / fall guy
(jocular) clever and quick-witted person
five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence / also written 五瘟神
undecipherable handwriting / scribblings / (fig.) hypocritical talk
public nuisance / a wicked, mean spirited individual
sneaky / furtive
what the hell; preposterous
Joker (playing card)
heavy smoker / chain smoker
spot baldness (alopecia areata)
reckless person / hothead
foreign devil / term of abuse for Westerners
sinister plot / dirty trick / cheap trick
sb who is always hungry / glutton / (Buddhism) hungry ghost
to respect Gods and demons from a distance (idiom); to remain at a respectful distance
afraid to die (contemptuous term)
the gates of hell
dirty trick / monkey business
(derog.) wannabe foreigner, a Chinese person who apes the ways of foreigners
sneaky / secretive / furtive
lit. to pretend to be in contact with supernatural beings (idiom) / fig. to engage in hocus-pocus
supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods / uncanny workmanship / superlative craftsmanship
to wail like ghosts and howl like wolves (idiom)
demons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation / curious coincidence
reggae (loanword) / also written 雷鬼
to play tricks / to cheat / to get up to mischief / to become a ghost / to give up the ghost
foreign devil / wartime term of abuse for Japanese
evil monsters / (fig.) bad characters / (political) bad elements
gambling addict
lit. to invite the devil to one's house (idiom) / fig. to introduce a potential source of trouble
mischievous fellow; rascal
to pull a face / to grimace / to scowl
ghost of sb devoured by a tiger who helps the tiger devour others
full of devilish tricks and cunning stratagems (idiom) / sly / crafty / malicious
wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them (idiom) / person who has no family or friends to rely on
to hang around / to fool around / to live aimlessly
to suspect everyone / overly suspicious
lit. wolves howling, devils groaning (idiom); pathetic screams
Japanese devil (common term of abuse in wartime China and in subsequent writing)
"white ghost", derogatory term for caucasians (Cantonese)
sinister design / ulterior motive
to stir up trouble in secret / to instigate
treacherous person / evil spirit
(coll.) sleep paralysis
(derog.) tubercular person; a consumptive
(idiom) muddled; momentarily confused
lit. ghosts are afraid of evil too / an evil person fears someone even more evil (idiom)
mole / spy / rat / traitor
the work of gods and devils (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation / curious coincidence
ghost town
unable to restrain oneself / pulling and tugging at each other
Caucasian woman (Cantonese)
demons and ghosts / ghouls and bogies
to play tricks; to cause mischief
gargoyle / grotesque
black devil (derogatory term for black or African person)
to harbor ulterior motives (idiom)
demon
Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui 黃父鬼|黄父鬼
foreigner (Cantonese) / Westerner
he who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night; you can rest with a clear conscience
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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