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haunted house
who would believe it! / what rubbish!
(dialect) flaming mad / furious
hobgoblin / bogey / phantom
Caucasian woman (Cantonese)
supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods / uncanny workmanship / superlative craftsmanship
ghost town
supernatural beings
devils are born in the heart (idiom) / fears originate in the mind
ghost story
sneaky / furtive
evil spirit / sneaky / secretive
dirty trick / monkey business
awful weather
lie / false words / nonsense / CL:
(coll.) sudden emergence of a person or vehicle from a blind spot (esp. into oncoming traffic)
haunted house
to hang around / to fool around / to live aimlessly
ghost
nonsense / humbug / bunk / bullshit
ghost movie
Joker (playing card)
full of devilish tricks and cunning stratagems (idiom) / sly / crafty / malicious
spot baldness (alopecia areata)
will-o'-the-wisp / jack-o'-lantern
to be obsessed / to be possessed
to wail like ghosts and howl like wolves (idiom)
foreigner (Cantonese) / Westerner
lit. ghosts are afraid of evil too / an evil person fears someone even more evil (idiom)
demon
sinister design / ulterior motive
(coll.) to holler; to squawk
unable to restrain oneself / pulling and tugging at each other
treacherous person / evil spirit
undecipherable handwriting / scribblings / (fig.) hypocritical talk
(idiom) sneaky; secretive; furtive
demons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation / curious coincidence
wry face / to grimace / to pull a face / comic face / face mask / devil mask
selective blindness caused by a ghost, whereby one fails to notice obvious dangers
the gates of hell
sinister plot / dirty trick / cheap trick
devil (derog. term for foreign invaders) / (esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931–1945) Jap; Nip
to tell one lie after another (idiom) / to talk nonsense / bogus story
demon; evil spirit
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
(bird species of China) boreal owl (Aegolius funereus)
creative genius
(idiom) muddled; momentarily confused
(coll.) rigged scale (used to deceive customers by displaying incorrect weight)
variant of 鬼哭狼嚎
(coll.) sleep paralysis


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