星圖

The 鬼 family

鬼 · guǐ · ㄍㄨㄟˇ — disembodied spirit

Know 鬼 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 魁、愧、瑰、畏. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.

鬼 guǐ · disembodied spirit鬼魁 kuí · sound from 鬼 · 65%魁愧 kuì · sound from 鬼 · 65%愧瑰 guī · sound from 鬼 · 78%瑰畏 wèi · sound from 鬼 · 65%畏小鬼 xiǎoguǐ · little demon (term of endearment for a child)小鬼魔鬼 móguǐ · devil魔鬼吸血鬼 xīxuèguǐ · leech吸血鬼鬼魂 guǐhún · ghost鬼魂酒鬼 jiǔguǐ · drunkard酒鬼鬼混 guǐhùn · to hang around鬼混有鬼 yǒuguǐ · (fig.) to smell fishy有鬼鬼扯 guǐchě · nonsense鬼扯搞鬼 gǎoguǐ · to make mischief搞鬼鬼鬼祟祟 guǐguǐsuìsuì · (idiom) sneaky鬼鬼祟祟醉鬼 zuìguǐ · drunkard醉鬼疑神疑鬼 yíshényíguǐ · to suspect everyone疑神疑鬼鬼才 guǐcái · creative genius鬼才鬼怪 guǐguài · hobgoblin鬼怪

The characters

One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.

The percentage is our computed confidence that 鬼 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 鬼 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 68%.

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