鬼
guǐ HSK5

ghost

鬼 guǐ
ghost noun
ghost; disembodied spirit; devil

你是人还是鬼？

nǐ shì rén hái​shi guǐ?

Are you human or a ghost?

[vice/addiction] affix
suffix for a person with a specific vice, addiction, or undesirable trait

你真是势利鬼。

nǐ zhēn​shi shì​li guǐ.

You are such a snob.

sinister plot nounverb
sinister plot; dirty trick; secretive or underhanded scheme
terrible adverb
terrible; damnable; used to describe something unpleasant like the weather or a location
stealthy adjective
(bound form) stealthy; surreptitious; sneaky
sly
sly; crafty; smart; clever
nonsense
absurd; nonsensical; used to describe speech or behavior that is reckless or messy
Gui constellation
(proper noun) the Ghost; one of the twenty-eight constellations of Chinese astronomy
surname
a Chinese surname
little rascal
affectionate nickname for a child

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,042nd most common 149.4 per million
Movie subtitles
470th most common 312.7 per million appears in 61% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
125.3 per million appears in 31% of films
Written text
56.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+9B3C

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)