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HSK
drunkard
HSK 5
public nuisance / a wicked, mean spirited individual
to make mischief / to play tricks
HSK 7-9
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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
miser / penny-pincher
disgusting person / slob
gargoyle / grotesque
afraid to die (contemptuous term)
sb who is always hungry / glutton / (Buddhism) hungry ghost
what the hell; preposterous
to have secret motives / to have a guilty conscience
miser; penny-pincher
devil (used jocularly or contemptuously) / the departed
gambling addict
reckless person / hothead
little demon (term of endearment for a child) / mischievous child / imp
wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them (idiom) / person who has no family or friends to rely on
mole / spy / rat / traitor
(jocular) clever and quick-witted person
crybaby
(esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931–1945) Jap; Nip
downcast wretch / bad-tempered and unpleasant person
heavy smoker / chain smoker
coward
unlicensed street vendor
haunted
(vulgar) impoverished person; the poor
glutton / chowhound
lazybones / idle bum
heavy smoker / chain smoker
five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence / also written 五瘟神
to suspect everyone / overly suspicious
to play tricks / to cheat / to get up to mischief / to become a ghost / to give up the ghost
troublemaker
(coll.) youtiao (deep-fried breadstick)
to exorcise / to drive out evil spirits
Red Devils, nickname of Manchester United Football Club
drunkard
dirty little devil (affectionate, of child)
lecherous devil
malicious spirit; devil
evil spirit / devil
mischievous fellow; rascal
leech / bloodsucking vermin / vampire (translated European notion) / fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
to harbor ulterior motives (idiom)
to encounter a ghost or supernatural being / (coll.) to experience sth strange, eerie or unlucky
sb who dies prematurely
scapegoat / fall guy
ghoul
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
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
to play tricks; to cause mischief
"white ghost", derogatory term for caucasians (Cantonese)
lecher / pervert
ghost of a person who died by hanging / hanged person / (coll.) inchworm / hangman (word game)
absurd / strange / (interj.) curse it! / to hell with it!
false hero (who pretends to be 李逵); a fake
glutton; greedy pig
black devil (derogatory term for black or African person)
(loanword) reggae
ghost of sb devoured by a tiger who helps the tiger devour others
(derog.) tubercular person; a consumptive


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