鬼 (gwai2 | gui3) : ghost; devil; dishonest; terrible

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鬼

gwai2

gui3

[1] [n] ghost; spirit; apparition
[2] [n] devil (a term of contempt or endearment)
[3] [adj] dishonest; improper; illicit
[4] [adj] terrible; horrible; damnable
[5] [n] sinister plot; dirty trick
[6] [粵] [adv] incredibly; extremely
[7] [粵] [adv] the hell (used as infix)

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Stroke count: 10

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This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

鬼

This word has been viewed 28921 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 26th May 2011 15:04

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咁鬼 gam3 gwai2 = so very 粵

鬼鼠 gwai2 syu2 = sneaky; sneakily 粵

搞鬼 gaau2 gwai2 gao3 gui3 = play tricks

鬼故事 gwai2 gu3 si6 gui3 gu4 shi4 = a ghost story

鬼故 gwai2 gu3*2 = a ghost story 粵

鬼知 gwai2 zi1 = who the hell knows 粵

鬼城 gwai2 sing4 gui3 cheng2 = ghost city

鬧鬼 naau6 gwai2 nao4 gui3 = be haunted

猛鬼 maang5 gwai2 meng3 gui3 = fierce ghost; severely haunted

冇鬼用 mou5 gwai2 jung6 mao3 gui3 yong4 = no bloody use 粵
See all 187 compounds (CantoDict reports 193 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 15 examples containing 鬼

嘩！你個男朋友咁鬼樣衰㗎! 粵
Oh my god! Your boyfriend is so ugly!
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,131797,131965#msg-131965]

你係個怕死鬼。粵
You are a coward.

佢乜嘢都怕，正一個冇膽鬼粵
He's scared of everything, he's a real coward.
[Lit. He what also scared, exactly one [counter] coward. Alternatively (and more simply): 佢乜嘢都怕，真係個冇膽鬼]

因為唔知底細，所以暫時叫佢紅鬼粵
Since we don't have much information, we're calling him "red ghost" for now.
[Lit. because not-know exact-details, therefore temporarily call him red ghost. ("Red Ghost" here is a codename for a criminal. If his name had already been mentioned we could have 因為唔知底細所以暫時噉叫佢.)]

佢喺度搞乜鬼？粵
What the heck is he/she doing here (or right now)?

做乜咁鬼鼠呀? 粵
Why are you being so sneaky?

呢隻古仔好㜺鬼粵
This story is really interesting.

咪又係我呢條老鬼！粵
It's just me, the old guy!

呢嚿肉鬼咁韌嚙極都唔入粵
This piece of meat is too tough. I just cannot bite on it.

條友仔掗掗拃拃噉，真係好鬼麻煩！粵
That over self-entitled person is really troublesome!

間酒店冇理由咁平格，話唔定啲房有鬼。粵
There is no reason why the rates for this hotel is so low. Maybe there are ghosts in the rooms.
[Final particle 格 is the affective version of 㗎.]

鬼知佢尋晚去咗邊。粵
Who (the hell) knows where he went last night. [as in "I don't know where he went last night"]
[邊 is short for 邊度]

佢哋結咗婚?呃鬼食豆腐咩。粵
They got married! You're kidding!

我相信佢已經開始懷疑，內鬼原來係我粵
I believe he's already started to think that the mole was me all along.

究竟佢喺度打咩鬼主意？
What's evil plan is he actually executing?

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