五鬼闹判

Five ghosts mock the judge, or Five ghosts resist judgment (title of folk opera, idiom); important personage mobbed by a crowd of ne'er-do-wells

five / 5

five chief demons of folklore personifying pestilence / also written 五瘟神

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

variant of 鬧|闹[nao4]

noisy / cacophonous / to make noise / to disturb / to vent (feelings) / to fall ill / to have an attack (of sickness) / to go in (for some activity) / to joke

to judge / to sentence / to discriminate / to discern / clearly distinguishable