興妖作怪

lit. to summon demons to create havoc (idiom) / fig. to stir up all kinds of trouble

to rise / to flourish / to become popular / to start / to encourage / to get up / (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect) / maybe (dialect)

feeling or desire to do sth / interest in sth / excitement

goblin / witch / devil / bewitching / enchanting / monster / phantom / demon

worker / workshop / (slang) troublesome / high-maintenance (person)

to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works

(of a ghost) to make strange things happen / to act up / to act behind the scenes / to make mischief / odd / to misbehave (euphemism for having sex)

bewildering / odd / strange / uncanny / devil / monster / to wonder at / to blame / quite / rather

variant of 怪[guai4]