disembodied spirit / ghost / devil / (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc / sly / crafty / resourceful (variant of 詭|诡[]) / one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
ghost
absurd / strange / (interj.) curse it! / to hell with it!
leech / bloodsucking vermin / vampire (translated European notion) / fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
devil
to hang around / to fool around / to live aimlessly
(idiom) sneaky / secretive / furtive
coward
little demon (term of endearment for a child) / mischievous child / imp
drunkard
haunted
drunkard
(fig.) to smell fishy
devil (derog. term for foreign invaders) / (esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931–1945) Jap / Nip
wry face / to grimace / to pull a face / comic face / face mask / devil mask
hobgoblin / bogey / phantom
will-o'-the-wisp / jack-o'-lantern
the gates of hell
sinister plot / dirty trick / cheap trick
demon / evil spirit
evil spirit / sneaky / secretive
to be obsessed / to be possessed
supernatural beings
sinister design / ulterior motive
lecher / pervert
to make mischief / to play tricks
lazybones / idle bum
evil spirit / devil
(jocular) clever and quick-witted person
devil (used jocularly or contemptuously) / the departed
miser / penny-pincher
scapegoat / fall guy
miser / penny-pincher
heavy smoker / chain smoker
to play tricks / to cause mischief
(lit.) to appear and disappear unpredictably like a spirit or a ghost (idiom) / (fig.) elusive
(vulgar) impoverished person / the poor
to play tricks / to cheat / to get up to mischief / to become a ghost / to give up the ghost
gambling addict
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27