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guǐ = gu + ei3
ghost / demon / terrible / damnable / clever / sly / crafty / (suffix for sb with a certain vice or addiction etc) / one of the 28 constellations
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How to pronounce 鬼

MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.

= gu initial

Gu is for Gitta Giraffe.

By Matthias • updated 3 months ago
+ ei3 final

In the Eiffel Tower’s living room.

By Matthias • updated 4 months ago

鬼 character breakdown

Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.

Component Translations
bái = b + ai2
white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera
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rén = r + (e)n2
variant of 人[ren2] / "person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 10), occurring in 兒, 兀, 兄 etc
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ér = Ø + Ø2
child / son
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non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final
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mǒu = m + ou3
old variant of 某[mou3]
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= s + Ø1
old variant of 私[si1]
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Characters with 鬼 as component

huái = hu + ai2
Chinese scholar tree (Sophora japonica) / Japanese pagoda tree
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= p + o4
soul / mortal soul, i.e. attached to the body
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wèi = w + ei4
surname Wei / name of vassal state of Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States / Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1], one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty / the Wei dynasty 221-265 / Wei prefecture and Wei county at different historical periods
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Words with 鬼

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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

Sentences with 鬼

鬼 currently does not appear in any sentence.

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guǐ

ghost / demon / terrible / damnable / clever / sly / crafty / (suffix for sb with a certain vice or addiction etc) / one of the 28 constellations

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