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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
devil
HSK 7-9
to make mischief / to play tricks
HSK 7-9
supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods / uncanny workmanship / superlative craftsmanship
little demon (term of endearment for a child) / mischievous child / imp
mole / spy / rat / traitor
ghost movie
ghost
haunted
evil spirit / devil
will-o'-the-wisp / jack-o'-lantern
black devil (derogatory term for black or African person)
creative genius
demon; evil spirit
demons and ghosts / ghouls and bogies
the gates of hell
devil (derog. term for foreign invaders) / (esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931-1945) Jap; Nip
supernatural beings
(idiom) sneaky; secretive; furtive
sb who is always hungry / glutton / (Buddhism) hungry ghost
lie / false words / nonsense / CL:
to be obsessed / to be possessed
ghost town
ghost of sb devoured by a tiger who helps the tiger devour others
(vulgar) impoverished person; the poor
absurd / strange / (interj.) curse it! / to hell with it!
to play tricks / to cheat / to get up to mischief / to become a ghost / to give up the ghost
evil monsters / (fig.) bad characters / (political) bad elements
hobgoblin / bogey / phantom
heavy smoker / chain smoker
to hang around / to fool around / to live aimlessly
wry face / to grimace / to pull a face / comic face / face mask / devil mask
to play tricks; to cause mischief
to encounter a ghost or supernatural being / (coll.) to experience sth strange, eerie or unlucky
haunted house
evil spirit / sneaky / secretive
sinister design / ulterior motive
treacherous person / evil spirit
lecher / pervert
lit. to pretend to be in contact with supernatural beings (idiom); fig. to create a false sense of mystery; to play tricks to deceive or scare others; to engage in hocus-pocus
wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them (idiom) / person who has no family or friends to rely on
drunkard
supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods / uncanny workmanship / superlative craftsmanship
lazybones / idle bum
to tell one lie after another (idiom) / to talk nonsense / bogus story
spot baldness (alopecia areata)
sneaky / furtive
what the hell; preposterous
glutton; greedy pig
(coll.) youtiao (deep-fried breadstick)
scapegoat / fall guy
Caucasian woman (Cantonese)
five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence / also written 五瘟神
gargoyle / grotesque
ghost of a person who died by hanging / hanged person / (coll.) inchworm / hangman (word game)
reggae (loanword)
to stir up trouble in secret / to instigate
crybaby
to pull a face / to grimace / to scowl
lit. with money, you can get a devil to turn a millstone (idiom) / fig. with money, you can get anything done; money talks
troublemaker
foreign devil / term of abuse for Westerners
Jiugui Liquor, liquor company from 吉首
false hero (who pretends to be 李逵); a fake
public nuisance / a wicked, mean spirited individual
leech / bloodsucking vermin / vampire (translated European notion) / fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
top secret / hush-hush
Japanese devil (common term of abuse in wartime China and in subsequent writing)
(coll.) rigged scale (used to deceive customers by displaying incorrect weight)
to harbor ulterior motives (idiom)
ghoul
(jocular) clever and quick-witted person
selective blindness caused by a ghost, whereby one fails to notice obvious dangers
disgusting person / slob
awful weather
undecipherable handwriting / scribblings / (fig.) hypocritical talk
glutton / chowhound
foreigner (Cantonese) / Westerner
to respect Gods and demons from a distance (idiom); to remain at a respectful distance
to exorcise / to drive out evil spirits
Joker (playing card)
sinister plot / dirty trick / cheap trick
full of devilish tricks and cunning stratagems (idiom) / sly / crafty / malicious
traitor / collaborator with the enemy
reckless person / hothead
afraid to die (contemptuous term)
lecherous devil
(botany) common stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus)
coward
demon
Devil's Island in French Guiana, a former penal colony (1852-1953)
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
in absolute secrecy
detestable (wordplay based on 神憎鬼厭|神憎鬼厌)
mischievous fellow; rascal
(derog.) wannabe foreigner, a Chinese person who apes the ways of foreigners
Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui 黃父鬼|黄父鬼

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