guǐ
ghost
Pictograph of a human-like being with an unnatural head and a tail.
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guǐ
ghost; spirit of dead; devil; demon; terrible; damnable; clever; sly; crafty; (suffix for sb with a certain vice or addiction etc); one of the 28 constellations
Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*k-ʔujʔ | kjw+jX | guǐ | ghost |
HSK level 5
Appears in 61.0604% of movies
470th most common character in movies
1042nd most common character in books
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+9B3C |
Shuowen | “鬼,人所歸為鬼。从人,象鬼頭。鬼陰氣賊害,从厶。,古文从示。” |