鬼 guǐ

1. guǐ noun a ghost; spirit of dead
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '鬼'; Guoyu '鬼' n 1; Kroll 2015 '鬼' 1, p. 147; Unihan '鬼')
2. guǐ noun Kangxi radical 194
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: A devil (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '鬼' n 6)
3. guǐ noun a devil
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Mythology
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '鬼' 3, p. 147; Unihan '鬼')
4. guǐ noun the spirit of a natural object
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Such as a tree spirit (Kroll 2015 '鬼' 2, p. 147)
5. guǐ adjective uncanny; strange
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '鬼' 4, pp. 147-148)
6. guǐ proper noun Gui
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Name of a Lunar lodging (Guoyu '鬼' n 4; Kroll 2015 '鬼' 5, pp. 147-148)
7. guǐ noun someone with a bad habit
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, 酒鬼 dunkard (Guoyu '鬼' n 2)
8. guǐ proper noun Gui
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '鬼' n 5)
9. guǐ adjective deceitful; sly
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '鬼'; Guoyu '鬼' adj 1)
10. guǐ adjective clever
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '鬼'; Guoyu '鬼' adj 2)

Contained in

• 鬼斧神工 supernaturally fine craft; the work of the Gods; uncanny workmanship; superlative craftsmanship
• 刘涓子鬼遗方(劉涓子鬼遺方) Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui 黃父鬼|黄父鬼
• 伥鬼(倀鬼) ghost of somebody devoured by a tiger
• 胆小鬼(膽小鬼) coward
• 鬼头鬼脑(鬼頭鬼腦) sneaky; furtive
• 引鬼上门(引鬼上門) to invite the devil to one's house; to introduce a potential source of trouble
• 鬼蜮 a treacherous person; an evil spirit
• 鬼画符(鬼畫符) undecipherable handwriting; scribblings; hypocritical talk
• 吊死鬼 ghost of a person who died by hanging; hanged person; (coll.) inchworm; hangman (word game)
• 东洋鬼(東洋鬼) foreign devil; wartime term of abuse for Japanese
• 不做亏心事，不怕鬼敲门(不做虧心事，不怕鬼敲門) He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night.; Rest with a clear conscience
• 鬼迷心窍(鬼迷心竅) to be obsessed; to be possessed
• 吝啬鬼(吝嗇鬼) miser; penny-pincher
• 鬼混 to hang around; to fool around; to live aimlessly
• 缺德鬼 public nuisance; a wicked, mean spirited individual
• 厉鬼(厲鬼) malicious spirit; devil
• 魍魉鬼怪(魍魎鬼怪) ghoulies and bogeys; things that go bump in the night
• 替死鬼 scapegoat; fall guy
• 心里有鬼(心裡有鬼) to have secret motives; to have a guilty conscience
• 神出鬼没(神出鬼沒) to appear and disappear unpredictably like a spirit or a ghost; elusive
• 见影怖鬼(見影怖鬼) see a shadow and be fear ghosts
• 鬼节(鬼節) Ghost festival
• 狼号鬼哭(狼號鬼哭) wolves howling, devils groaning; pathetic screams
• 恶鬼(惡鬼) an evil person
• 丧气鬼(喪氣鬼) downcast wretch; bad-tempered and unpleasant person
• 五鬼 five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence
• 鬼婆 Caucasian woman
• 驱魔赶鬼(驅魔趕鬼) to exorcise; to drive out evil spirits
• 酒鬼 drunkard
• 醉鬼 drunkard
• 鬼话(鬼話) lie; false words; nonsense
• 小气鬼(小氣鬼) miser; penny-pincher
• 促狭鬼(促狹鬼) rascal; mischievous fellow; joker
• 雷鬼 reggae
• 千鬼百怪 many ghosts and monsters
• 疑神疑鬼 to suspect everyone; overly suspicious
• 怕死鬼 afraid to die (contemptuous term)
• 神工鬼斧 supernaturally fine craft; the work of the Gods; uncanny workmanship; superlative craftsmanship
• 饿鬼(餓鬼) a very hungry person
• 搞鬼 to make mischief; to play tricks
• 馋鬼(饞鬼) a glutton
• 鬼鸮(鬼鴞) boreal owl (Aegolius funereus)
• 小鬼 a little devil
• 五鬼闹判(五鬼鬧判) Five ghosts mock the judge, or Five ghosts resist judgment (title of folk opera, idiom)
• 魔鬼 a devil
• 泣鬼神 sad enough to make a spirit cry
• 红魔鬼(紅魔鬼) Red Devils, nickname of Manchester United Football Club

Also contained in

把灯亮当鬼火 、 鬼谷子 、 魔鬼岛 、 黄父鬼

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷五十五 志第八 天文八 Volume 55 Treatises 8: Astronomy 8 History of Song 宋史 — count: 138
• 卷四十八　志第一:　　天文一 Volume 48 Treatises 1: Astronomy 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 71
• 卷二十六 志第二 天文二 Volume 26 Treatises 2: Astronomy 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 51
• 卷四十九　志第二:　　天文二 Volume 49 Treatises 2: Astronomy 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 41
• 卷十三 志第三 天文下 Volume 13 Treatises 3: Astronomy Part Three Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 38
• 《鬼部》 Guǐ Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 38
• 卷五十四 志第七 天文七 Volume 54 Treatises 7: Astronomy 7 History of Song 宋史 — count: 37
• 第十一 天文中 明十二 章五 和三十三 殤一 安四十六 順二十三 質三 Volume 101: Astronomy Part Two Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 35
• 卷五十三 志第六 天文六 Volume 53 Treatises 6: Astronomy 6 History of Song 宋史 — count: 33
• 卷三十三　　　　志第二十三　　天文三 Volume 33 Treatises 27: Astronomy 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 31

Collocations

• 天鬼 (天鬼) 以祭祀天鬼 — Mozi 墨子, 卷二 尚賢中 Book 2 - Exaltation of the Virtuous II — count: 22
• 舆鬼 (輿鬼) 其星輿鬼 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷三　天文訓 Chapter 3: Celestial Phenomena — count: 11
• 事鬼 (事鬼) 事鬼敬神而遠之 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《表記》 The Record on Example — count: 10
• 人鬼 (人鬼) 所以別事天神與人鬼也 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《郊特牲》 The Single Victim at the Border Sacrifices — count: 7
• 曰鬼 (曰鬼) 曰鬼 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《祭法》 The Law of Sacrifices — count: 6
• 鬼侯 (鬼侯) 脯鬼侯以饗諸侯 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《明堂位》 The Places in the Hall of Distinction — count: 4
• 鬼享 (鬼享) 以路鼓鼓鬼享 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 4
• 鬼道 (鬼道) 若以鬼道諫我 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷九 正諫 Chapter 9: Direct Advice — count: 4
• 侮鬼 (侮鬼) 率以詬天侮鬼 — Mozi 墨子, 卷一 法儀 Book 1 - Methods and Standards — count: 4
• 敬鬼 (敬鬼) 尊天敬鬼 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷七 政理 Chapter 7: Governance — count: 3