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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
- —鬼畜米英Western brute (esp. American and British); Western savage
- —異域の鬼person who died outside of their homeland; ghost in a foreign land
- —鬼手仏心compassionate ruthlessness; merciless scalpel of a merciful surgeon; a demon's hand and a Buddha's heart
- —仏心鬼手compassionate ruthlessness; merciless scalpel of a merciful surgeon; a Buddha's heart and a demon's hand
- —鬼滅の刃Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (manga, anime)
- —鬼籍に入るto pass away; to join the majority; to enter the death register
- —連続殺人鬼serial killer
- —餓鬼んちょbrat; kid; urchin; little devil
- —猟奇殺人鬼ghoulish murderer; grotesque killer
- —鬼面人を威すto threaten by outward appearance; to use bluff to intimidate; to make empty threats
- —疑心暗鬼を生ずsuspicion begets monsters
- —鬼の女房に鬼神a horrible man will find a horrible wife
- —鬼面人を驚かすto threaten by outward appearance; to use bluff to intimidate; to make empty threats
- —断じて行えば鬼神も之を避くwhere there's a will, there's a way
- —墨は餓鬼に磨らせ、筆は鬼に持たせよgrind your inkstick gently but move your brush vigorously; let the hungry ghost grind your inkstick, let the ogre hold your brush
- —刹鬼demon; man-slaying ogre; impermanence; transiency
- —悪餓鬼brat
- —餓鬼共damn kids; brats
- —餓鬼大将leader of the pack (of a group of kids); neighborhood bully (neighbourhood)
- —餓鬼どもdamn kids; brats