鬼
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
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #528 U+9B3C
How 鬼 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A ghost with a scary face
components: 乚 厶
? unknown part
How to remember it
ghost · Heisig RSH #1472
a drop of + brains + human legs + elbow
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 鬼 as their sound component
These characters all use 鬼 (guǐ) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鬼 sound component | guǐ | ghost; demon; sly, mischievous |
| 愧 | kuì | ashamed, regretful; the pangs of conscience |
| 瑰 | guī | extraordinary, fabulous; rose; semi-precious stone |
| 槐 | huái | locust tree |
| 傀 | guī | great, gigantic; puppet |
| 嵬 | wéi | rugged, rocky, precipitous |
| 隗 | wěi | high, lofty; surname |
Words containing 鬼
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 心中有鬼 | xīn zhōng yǒu guǐ | to harbor ulterior motives (idiom) |
| 心里有鬼 | xīn li yǒu guǐ | to have secret motives; to have a guilty conscience |
| 日本鬼子 | Rì běn guǐ zi | Japanese devil (common term of abuse in wartime China and in subsequent writing) |
| 鬼天气 | guǐ tiān qì | awful weather |
| 小气鬼 | xiǎo qì guǐ | miser; penny-pincher |
| 二鬼子 | èr guǐ zi | traitor; collaborator with the enemy |
| 见人说人话，见鬼说鬼话 | jiàn rén shuō rén huà , jiàn guǐ shuō guǐ huà | (fig.) adaptable; able to deal with various kinds of people and situations; (derog.) insin… |
| 东洋鬼子 | Dōng yáng guǐ zi | (esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931–1945) Jap; Nip |
| 点鬼火 | diǎn guǐ huǒ | to stir up trouble in secret; to instigate |
| 鬼门关 | guǐ mén guān | the gates of hell |
| 鬼子 | guǐ zi | devil (derog. term for foreign invaders); (esp. during resistance against Japanese aggress… |
| 鬼马 | guǐ mǎ | (originally Cantonese) impish; playful; quirky; paper horse used in traditional funeral ri… |
| 小鬼 | xiǎo guǐ | little demon (term of endearment for a child); mischievous child; imp |
| 白鬼 | bái guǐ | "white ghost", derogatory term for caucasians (Cantonese) |
| 有鬼 | yǒu guǐ | (fig.) to smell fishy |
| 洋鬼子 | yáng guǐ zi | foreign devil; term of abuse for Westerners |
| 神出鬼没 | shén chū guǐ mò | (lit.) to appear and disappear unpredictably like a spirit or a ghost (idiom); (fig.) elus… |
| 鬼城 | guǐ chéng | ghost town |
| 鬼神 | guǐ shén | supernatural beings |
| 引鬼上门 | yǐn guǐ shàng mén | lit. to invite the devil to one's house (idiom); fig. to introduce a potential source of t… |