鬼
ghost / demon / terrible / damnable / clever / sly / crafty / (suffix for sb with a certain vice or addiction etc) / one of the 28 constellations
鬼 character breakdown
variant of 人[ren2] / "person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 10), occurring in 兒, 兀, 兄 etc
儿
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丿
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乚
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Mnemonic symbol: "son" (儿) sounds similar to "Sun" like in "Sun Wu Kong", so it's gonna be represented by the monkey king. Albert Einstein (Ø-) and Sun Wu Kong (儿) are fighting in the space station's kitchen (-Ø2). Their weapons: Albert Einstein has a shovel (乚), and Sun Wu Kong has a banana (丿).
non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final
old variant of 某[mou3]
old variant of 私[si1]
Mnemonic symbol: a fake nose. Socrates (s) is wearing his fake nose (厶) in outer space, in front of the space station (Ø1).
white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera
Characters with 鬼 as component
devil / magic
soul / spirit / immortal soul, i.e. that can be detached from the body
old variant of 魂[hun2]
(semiprecious stone) / extraordinary
old variant of 瑰[gui1]
demon / magic / to charm
Chinese scholar tree (Sophora japonica) / Japanese pagoda tree
soul / mortal soul, i.e. attached to the body
surname Wei / name of vassal state of Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States / Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1], one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty / the Wei dynasty 221-265 / Wei prefecture and Wei county at different historical periods
tower over a palace gateway (old)
chief / head / outstanding / exceptional / stalwart
Words with 鬼
to play tricks / to cheat / to get up to mischief / to become a ghost / to give up the ghost
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
(derog.) wannabe foreigner, a Chinese person who apes the ways of foreigners
Sentences with 鬼
鬼 currently does not appear in any sentence.