鬼
Meanings
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- 1.disembodied spirit; ghost; devil
- 2.(suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc
- 3.sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡[guǐ])
- 4.one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy
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Wiktionary
- 1.ghost; apparition; spirit (Classifier: 隻／只)
- 2.devil; demon
- 3.stealthy; tricky; furtive
- 4.sinister plot; dirty trick
- 5.devilish; damned; ghastly
- 6.clever; smart; quick
- 7.fool; blockhead; guy; moral imbecile
- 8.Derogatory name for people with a flaw or vice. -ard
- 9.imp; urchin
- 10.Caucasian or Western person
- 11.traitor; rat; mole
- 12.opponent trying to steal the ball
- 13.so; very
- 14.suspicious
- 15.the hell
- 16.who the hell; what the hell
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – a kneeling man or figure with an ugly face (甶). The ugly face could be a mask. The lower right “dot” is a small 厶; it is a residual tail that was added later – compare 离. Related to 畏 (variant 𠂽), which originally depicts a ghost standing with a stick in hand. Compare 異 (“different, strange”), in which the 田 also derives from a face and indicates a mask. Compare also 禺, in which the top component represents either a mask or a monkey's head. Unknown. May be related to: * 威 (OC *qul, “to overawe, to terrorise”) with k-nominalisation and endoactive tone B, lit. "the thing which is doing the overawing" (Childs-Johnson, 1995 apud Schuessler, 2007; Baxter & Sagart, 2014), or * 歸 (OC *klul, “to return”) (Shuowen Jiezi https://ctext.org/shuo-wen-jie-zi/gui-bu?searchu=%E6%AD%B8&searchmode=showall#result; Liezi https://ctext.org/liezi/tian-rui?searchu=%E9%AC%BC%E6%AD%B8%E4%B9%9F&searchmode=showall#result; Carr, 1985 apud Schuessler, 2007), yet Baxter & Sagart (2014) consider this connection, while semantically plausible, to be a folk etymology; as 鬼 (OC *k-ʔujʔ) and 歸 (OC *[k]ʷəj) had different Old Chinese rhymes & thus were likely unrelated. See also 詭 (OC *krolʔ, “to deceive; peculiar”). Note also similarities to Burmese ကွယ် (kwai, “to hide, obstruct”).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我不是鬼。
I'm not a ghost.
這房子鬧鬼。
The house is haunted.
有些人相信鬼。
Some people believe in ghosts.
這間房子鬧鬼。
This house is haunted.
你相信鬼存在吗？
Do you believe in ghosts?
你相信鬼存在吗？
Do you believe ghosts exist?
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