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鬼 kanji
ghost, devil
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
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Kun readings
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Words with 鬼
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —鬼才Popularwizard; genius; remarkable talent; exceptional ability
- —鬼神Popularfierce god
- —吸血鬼Popularvampire; bloodsucker
- —悪鬼evil spirit; demon; devil
- —餓鬼brat; kid; urchin; little devil; preta; hungry ghost
- —鬼女demoness; witch; ogress; she-devil; married woman
- —鬼畜brute; savage; fiend
- —債鬼cruel creditor; bill collector; dun
- —邪鬼devil; imp; evil spirit
- —幽鬼ghost; revenant; spirit (of the dead); departed soul
- —鬼面mask of a devil; startling appearance; devil's face
- —鬼気ghastly; dreadful
- —鬼門the northeastern (unlucky) direction; person or thing to be avoided; the demon's gate; weak point; Achilles' heel
- —鬼籍necrology; roster of the dead
- —又鬼traditional winter hunters in Tōhoku; matagi
- —鬼宿Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); "day of the ghost"
- —鬼繞kanji "demon" radical
- —鬼乳witch's milk (milk secreted by some neonates)
- —鬼魅demon; monster; apparition
- —鬼哭wailings of a restless ghost; weeping voice of a departed soul