鬼挡墙
guǐ​dǎng​qiáng

walking in circles

  • created sense approved 鬼挡墙/鬼擋牆 · guǐ​dǎng​qiáng · walking in circles — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    鬼挡墙 / 鬼擋牆

    guǐ​dǎng​qiáng

    walking in circles

    the phenomenon of finding oneself walking in circles or being unable to find one's way out of a place, attributed in folklore to ghosts or spirits

    鬼 (literal) → 鬼 · guǐ · ghost 挡 (literal) → 挡/擋 · dǎng · to block 墙 (literal) → 墙/牆 · qiáng · wall

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense