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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 make mischief / to play tricks
HSK 7-9
devil
HSK 7-9
supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods / uncanny workmanship / superlative craftsmanship
evil monsters / (fig.) bad characters / (political) bad elements
wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them (idiom) / person who has no family or friends to rely on
little demon (term of endearment for a child) / mischievous child / imp
evil spirit / sneaky / secretive
black devil (derogatory term for black or African person)
malicious spirit; devil
evil spirit / devil
leech / bloodsucking vermin / vampire (translated European notion) / fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
haunted
mole / spy / rat / traitor
demon; evil spirit
supernatural beings
hobgoblin / bogey / phantom
will-o'-the-wisp / jack-o'-lantern
drunkard
ghost town
wry face / to grimace / to pull a face / comic face / face mask / devil mask
to be obsessed / to be possessed
creative genius
to tell one lie after another (idiom) / to talk nonsense / bogus story
sinister design / ulterior motive
gambling addict
to play tricks / to cheat / to get up to mischief / to become a ghost / to give up the ghost
demons and ghosts / ghouls and bogies
lecher / pervert
absurd / strange / (interj.) curse it! / to hell with it!
demons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation / curious coincidence
lit. to appear and disappear unpredictably like a spirit or a ghost (idiom) / fig. elusive
the gates of hell
sneaky / secretive / furtive
to hang around / to fool around / to live aimlessly
to play tricks; to cause mischief
devils / refers to 日本鬼子, wartime term insult for Japanese
to wail like ghosts and howl like wolves (idiom)
lit. to pretend to be in contact with supernatural beings (idiom) / fig. to engage in hocus-pocus
heavy smoker / chain smoker
treacherous person / evil spirit
sb who is always hungry / glutton / (Buddhism) hungry ghost
haunted house
what the hell; preposterous
ghost
supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods / uncanny workmanship / superlative craftsmanship
spot baldness (alopecia areata)
devil (used jocularly or contemptuously) / the departed
the work of gods and devils (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation / curious coincidence
lazybones / idle bum
glutton; greedy pig
ghost of sb devoured by a tiger who helps the tiger devour others
lie / false words / nonsense / CL:
(coll.) youtiao (deep-fried breadstick)
sneaky / furtive
miser; penny-pincher
(derog.) tubercular person; a consumptive
foreigner (Cantonese) / Westerner
Joker (playing card)
nonsense / humbug / bunk / bullshit
traitor / collaborator with the enemy
reckless person / hothead
to have secret motives / to have a guilty conscience
crybaby
gargoyle / grotesque
disgusting person / slob
unlicensed street vendor
reggae (loanword)
full of devilish tricks and cunning stratagems (idiom) / sly / crafty / malicious
he who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night; you can rest with a clear conscience
five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence / also written 五瘟神
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
mischievous fellow; rascal
(derog.) wannabe foreigner, a Chinese person who apes the ways of foreigners
to pull a face / to grimace / to scowl
Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui 黃父鬼|黄父鬼
ghost of a person who died by hanging / hanged person / (coll.) inchworm / hangman (word game)
downcast wretch / bad-tempered and unpleasant person
miser / penny-pincher
dirty little devil (affectionate, of child)
lit. to invite the devil to one's house (idiom) / fig. to introduce a potential source of trouble
to harbor ulterior motives (idiom)
afraid to die (contemptuous term)
troublemaker
to respect Gods and demons from a distance (idiom); to remain at a respectful distance
Japanese devil (common term of abuse in wartime China and in subsequent writing)
scapegoat / fall guy
lit. with money, you can get a devil to turn a millstone (idiom) / fig. with money, you can get anything done; money talks
false hero (who pretends to be 李逵); a fake
foreign devil / wartime term of abuse for Japanese
foreign devil / wartime term of abuse for Japanese
(jocular) clever and quick-witted person
foreign devil / term of abuse for Westerners
lecherous devil
foxes, ghosts and immortals / supernatural beings, usually fictional
lit. wolves howling, devils groaning (idiom); pathetic screams

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