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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
- —胡鬼板battledore; hagoita
- —糞餓鬼stupid brat; son of a bitch
- —点鬼簿death register; necrology
- —食屍鬼ghoul; corpse-eating demon
- —牛頭鬼ox-headed demon (in hell)
- —馬頭鬼horse-headed demon (in hell)
- —屍食鬼ghoul; corpse-eating demon
- —疑心暗鬼suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows
- —神出鬼没appearing in unexpected places and at unexpected moments; elusive; phantom
- —百鬼夜行nightly procession of monsters, spirits, etc.; veritable pandemonium; large number of people plotting and doing evil; creepy characters roaming about
- —鬼気迫るto be bloodcurdling; to be ghastly
- —鬼子母神Hariti (goddess of childbirth and children)
- —鬼哭啾啾spine-chilling (like the wailing and weeping of a restless ghost); hair-raising
- —悪鬼羅刹man-eating fiend
- —川施餓鬼Buddhist services in memory of those drowned in a river; offering to suffering spirits at the river
- —鬼面仏心having the face of a devil and the heart of Buddha; having a stern face but a tender heart
- —牛鬼蛇神wicked and perverse; weird and incoherent
- —神算鬼謀inscrutable stratagem; ingenious scheme
- —胡鬼の子Buckleya lanceolata (species of parasitic deciduous shrub)
- —鬼太郎袋sickness back; motion sickness bag