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Meaning of 鬼
Pinyin
guǐ
Radical
鬼
Strokes
9
Definition
ghost / sly / crafty
Usage
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鬼 [guǐ]
名词
1. 某些宗教或迷信的人所说的人死后的灵魂：鬼魂。鬼魅。鬼蜮（1. 鬼怪；2. 阴险害人的）。
(Certain religions or superstitious people refer to the soul of a person after death as a ghost: ghost soul; ghostly entity; a demon (1. monster; 2. insidious and harmful).)
2. 阴险，不光明：鬼话。鬼黠。鬼胎。
(Insidious, not upright: devilish words; deceitful; evil nature.)
3. 对人的蔑称或憎称：酒鬼。烟鬼。鬼子。吝啬鬼。
(A derogatory or contemptuous term for a person: drunkard; smoker; miser; stingy person.)
4. 恶劣，糟糕（限做定语）：鬼天气。
(Bad, awful (limited to attributive use): terrible weather.)
5. 机灵，敏慧（多指小孩子）：鬼精灵。
(Clever, intelligent (often referring to children): clever child.)
6. 表示爱昵的称呼：小鬼。机灵鬼。
(A term of endearment: little ghost; clever little one.)
7. 星名，二十八宿之一。
(A star name, one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions.)
引：
1. 《说文》：鬼，人所归为鬼。
(Shuōwén: Ghost refers to what a person becomes after death.)
2. 《礼记·祭义》：众生必死，死必归士，此之谓鬼。
(Lǐjì: All beings must die, and when dead, they must return to the earth; this is called a ghost.)
3. 《易·睽》：载鬼一车。
(Yìjīng: A cart carries ghosts.)
4. 《诗·小雅·何人斯》：为鬼为蜮。
(Shījīng: To become a ghost or a demon.)
5. 《淮南子·本经》：苍颉作书鬼夜哭。
(Huáinánzǐ: Cangjie wrote the book, and the ghosts cried at night.)
6. 《楚辞·屈原·国殇》：身既死兮神以灵，子魂魄兮为鬼雄。
(Chǔcí: When the body dies, the spirit becomes a ghostly hero.)
7. 林觉民《与妻书》：吾作此书时，尚是世中一人;汝看此书时，吾已成为阴间一鬼。
(Línjuémín: When I wrote this letter, I was still a living person; when you read this letter, I will have become a ghost in the underworld.)
例：
鬼伯（鬼王）；鬼雄（鬼中的强者）；鬼物（鬼怪，鬼魅。有别于生人，故称鬼物）；鬼教（说阴间鬼神之事）。
(Ghost elder (king of ghosts); ghost hero (strong one among ghosts); ghostly entities (monsters, specters. Distinct from living beings, hence called ghostly entities); ghostly teachings (talks of spirits in the underworld).)
形容词
1. 隐密不测 ([En.] secret; stealthy; surreptitious)
(Secretive and inscrutable.)
引：
1. 《韩非子·八经》：故明主之行制也天，其用人也鬼。
(Hánfēizǐ: Thus, the actions of enlightened rulers are celestial, while their uses of people are as stealthy as ghosts.)
例：
鬼促促（鬼鬼祟祟）；鬼诨（应酬;应付）；鬼慌（暗里着急;心慌）。
(Secretive actions; elusive replies; secretly anxious; uneasy.)
2. 慧黠，机警 ([En.] clever; smart; exquisite; strange and changeful)
(Clever, intelligent, exquisite, strange and changeable.)
引：
1. 这孩子真鬼。
(This child is really clever.)
例：
鬼工（形容制作的精巧，非人力所能及）；鬼才（才情怪谲，资质出众的人）；鬼幻（似鬼神般变化莫测）；鬼出电入（比喻出没迅速而难测）。
(Exquisite craftsmanship; extraordinary talent (an exceptionally gifted person); unpredictable like a ghost; appearing and disappearing swiftly.)
supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods / uncanny workmanship / superlative craftsmanship
lit. Gods appear and devils vanish (idiom); to appear and disappear unpredictably / to change rapidly
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Input Method for 鬼
Pinyin
gui3
Wubi
rqci
Cangjie
hui
Zhengma
nj
Four Corner
26513
Unicode
U+9b3c
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