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- disembodied spirit; ghost; devil
- (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc
- sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 詭|诡[gui3])
- one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy
Trad. 倀鬼
- ghost of sb devoured by a tiger who helps the tiger devour others
- devil (derog. term for foreign invaders)
- (esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931–1945) Jap; Nip
- (coll.) rigged scale (used to deceive customers by displaying incorrect weight)
- to encounter a ghost or supernatural being
- (coll.) to experience sth strange, eerie or unlucky
- to play tricks
- to cheat
- to get up to mischief
- to become a ghost
- to give up the ghost
Trad. 紅魔鬼
- Red Devils, nickname of Manchester United Football Club
- unable to restrain oneself
- pulling and tugging at each other
Trad. 鬼探頭
- (coll.) sudden emergence of a person or vehicle from a blind spot (esp. into oncoming traffic)
Trad. 東洋鬼
- (esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931–1945) Jap; Nip
Trad. 鬼畫符
- undecipherable handwriting
- scribblings
- (fig.) hypocritical talk
Trad. 黃父鬼
- 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
- selective blindness caused by a ghost, whereby one fails to notice obvious dangers
- leech
- bloodsucking vermin
- vampire (translated European notion)
- fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
- ghost of a person who died by hanging
- hanged person
- (coll.) inchworm
- hangman (word game)
Trad. 魔鬼島
- Devil's Island in French Guiana, a former penal colony (1852-1953)
Trad. 喪氣鬼
- downcast wretch
- bad-tempered and unpleasant person
- demons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation
- curious coincidence
- to wail like ghosts and howl like wolves (idiom)
Trad. 鬼怕惡人
- lit. ghosts are afraid of evil too
- an evil person fears someone even more evil (idiom)
Trad. 鬼摸腦殼
- (idiom) muddled; momentarily confused
- supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods
- uncanny workmanship
- superlative craftsmanship
Trad. 東洋鬼子
- (esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931–1945) Jap; Nip
- devils are born in the heart (idiom)
- fears originate in the mind
Trad. 鬼計多端
- full of devilish tricks and cunning stratagems (idiom)
- sly
- crafty
- malicious
Trad. 鬼話連篇
- to tell one lie after another (idiom)
- to talk nonsense
- bogus story
- 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
Trad. 引鬼上門
- lit. to invite the devil to one's house (idiom)
- fig. to introduce a potential source of trouble
- (idiom) all kinds of evil spirits or malevolent beings
Trad. 裝神弄鬼
- 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
Trad. 神出鬼沒
- lit. to appear and disappear unpredictably like a spirit or a ghost (idiom)
- fig. elusive
- supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods
- uncanny workmanship
- superlative craftsmanship
- the work of gods and devils (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation
- curious coincidence
Trad. 心裡有鬼
- to have secret motives
- to have a guilty conscience
- Japanese devil (common term of abuse in wartime China and in subsequent writing)
- (derog.) wannabe foreigner, a Chinese person who apes the ways of foreigners
Trad. 五鬼鬧判
- 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
Trad. 驅魔趕鬼
- to exorcise
- to drive out evil spirits
Trad. 狼號鬼哭
- lit. wolves howling, devils groaning (idiom); pathetic screams
Trad. 劉涓子鬼遺方
- Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui 黃父鬼|黄父鬼
Trad. 神不知鬼不覺
- top secret
- hush-hush
Trad. 敬鬼神而遠之
- to respect Gods and demons from a distance (idiom); to remain at a respectful distance
Trad. 人不知鬼不覺
- in absolute secrecy
Trad. 有錢能使鬼推磨
- lit. with money, you can get a devil to turn a millstone (idiom)
- fig. with money, you can get anything done; money talks
Trad. 閻王好見，小鬼難當
- lit. standing in front of the King of Hell is easy, but smaller devils are difficult to deal with (idiom)