Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- guǐ
English
- ghost
- disembodied spirit; ghost; devil
- (noun) 1. Westerner; 2. Caucasian; (adverb) 1. really; 2. incredibly
- awful; dreadful
- not (after monosyllabic verbs except 冇 mou5); used in a relatively heightened emotional state to negate the patient
- derogatory or even offensive suffix to mean "person" or "guy"; sometimes also used in mock affectionate irritation
- open to suspicion that one may be a traitor
- ghost; spirit
- spirit of dead
- (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc
- used in a relatively heightened emotional state to focus on the negation of the action and, when without subjects, to denote the absence of agents, as an equivalent of indefinite pronouns "nobody" and "no one" in English
- a slang against foreigners from the West, especially Caucasians; its derogative tone has softened quite a lot in recent years
- alike foreigners from the West, especially Caucasians
- traitor; spy within an organisation or a camp; the rat
- devil
- sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 詭|诡[gui3])
- intensifier following verbs which are usually monosyllabic and transitive, closer than 死 sei2 and suffices to the verb
- infix between adverbs, including 咁 gam3, 好 hou2, 幾 gei2, 勁 ging6 or 最 zeoi3, and adjectives to denote a strong degree
- (in ball games of teams, especially football, basketball) an opponent who is trying to steal the ball
- Kangxi radical 194
- one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy
- infix between negation adverbs like 唔 m4 and 咪 mai5, and verbs / adjectives to intensify negation; "not ... at all"; "extremely not"
- joker
- 23rd lunar mansion, determinative star θ Cancri
- affixed to negate any adjective or verb with a positive or affirmative connotation, after its first syllable; "not ... at all"; "extremely not"
- infix used to strengthen the negative connotation after the first syllable of certain non-positive adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, or predicate-object compound verbs
粵語
- 可怕;令人厭惡或者畏懼
- 加喺「冇」以外嘅單音節動詞後面,表示對受事者嘅否定,並且處於比較高漲嘅情緒狀態
- 貶損甚至冒犯某人嘅後綴;有時都會當反話用以示親暱
- 有內鬼、背叛者嫌疑
- 有指係人肉身死咗之後留喺人間嘅靈魂,部份佛教教派叫呢種狀態做「中有」;有時會以「嗰啲嘢」、「污糟嘢」婉轉代指(量詞:隻)
- 表示處於比較高漲嘅情緒狀態,聚焦喺對動作嘅否定;冇主語嘅話,就代指「冇(任何)人」、「一個人都冇」,表示施事者從缺
- 表示外國人,特別係白人;貶抑嘅意味已經冇以前咁濃
- 樣貌、行為或者説話方式似外國人或者混血兒
- 內鬼;背叛者;內奸
- 喺動詞後面加強語氣,而該動詞通常係單音節同及物;比「死」同埋後綴更加貼近動詞
- 插喺副詞「咁」、「好」、「幾」、「勁」、「最」,同形容詞之間,表示程度強烈
- 體育術語;喺團體球類活動(尤其係足球同籃球)入面,打算偷襲搶波嘅人
- 插喺否定副詞「唔」、「咪」,同動詞、形容詞之間,加強否定語氣
- 啤牌鬼牌嘅簡稱(量詞:隻)
- 插喺褒義或含肯定義嘅形容詞、動詞第一個音節之後,用作否定
- 插喺若干非褒義形容詞、副詞、代詞、述賓式動詞第一個音節之後,加強貶義
As a component in · 351
Words containing 鬼
- 魔鬼mo1 gwai2
devil
- 走鬼zau2 gwai2
unlicensed street vendor
- 鬼馬gwai2 maa5
(originally Cantonese) impish; playful; quirky
- 鬼才gwai2 coi4
creative genius
- 搞鬼gaau2 gwai2
to make mischief
- 鬼節gwai2 zit3
see 中元節|中元节[Zhong1 yuan2 jie2]
- 鬼火gwai2 fo2
will-o'-the-wisp
- 酒鬼zau2 gwai2
drunkard
- 撞鬼zong2 gwai2
to encounter a ghost or supernatural being
- 鬼混gwai2 wan6
to hang around
- 窮鬼kung4 gwai2
(vulgar) impoverished person; the poor
- 好鬼hou2 gwai2
very, so
- 內鬼noi6 gwai2
mole
- 鬼打gwai2 daa2
unbelievably; outrageously; (exclamatory phrase) 鬼打!: utterly impossible!; sheer nonsense!; simply absurb!; nothing of the sort!; 鬼打呀!
- 死鬼sei2 gwai2
devil (used jocularly or contemptuously)
- 把鬼baa2 gwai2
(slang) an expression to say that something is useless; futile; pointless; meaningless
- 鬼市gwai2 si5
overnight market
- 老鬼lou5 gwai2
an old person (colloquial or derogatory)
- 女鬼neoi5 gwai2
female ghost
- 生鬼saang1 gwai2
(adjective) funny; interesting; comical; humorous; madcap
- 鬼叫gwai2 giu3
(coll.) to holler; to squawk
- 鬼頭gwai2 tau4
a foreigner (originally a term for a foreign military officer)
- 鬼子gwai2 zi2
devil (derog. term for foreign invaders)
- 鬼臉gwai2 lim5
wry face