| guǐ | ghost/sly/crafty/CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 鬼 | ghost sly crafty |
| 鬼主意 | evil plan; wicked idea; evil plan |
| 鬼佬 | foreigner (Cantonese) westerner |
| 鬼使神差 | demons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation curious coincidence |
| 鬼剃头 | alopecia |
| 鬼名堂 | A trick that was difficult to discover, or figure out. |
| 鬼哭狼嚎 | let loose cries and scream |
| 鬼头鬼脑 | furtive; stealthy |
| 鬼婆 | Caucasian woman (Cantonese) |
| 鬼子 | devils refers to 日本鬼子, wartime term insult for Japanese |
| 鬼怕恶人 | lit. ghosts are afraid of evil too an evil person fears someone even more evil (idiom) |
| 鬼怪 | hobgoblin bogey monstrosity |
| 鬼才 | wizard |
| 鬼打墙 | Used in superstition to mean getting lost in the evening, and always coming back to the former place. Used as a metaphor to refer to an obstacle put up secretly. |
| 鬼扯 | nonsense humbug bunk |
| 鬼扯脚 | lit. ghost pulls your leg involuntary tug of muscles fig. very unlucky |
| 鬼扯腿 | lit. ghost pulls your leg involuntary tug of muscles fig. very unlucky |
| 鬼把戏 | cat in the meal |
| 鬼摸脑壳 | muddled momentarily confused |
| 鬼故事 | ghost story |