鬼仔

Chinese

		ghost; sly; crafty	minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility
trad. (鬼仔)		鬼	仔
simp. ^#(鬼仔)		鬼	仔

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): gwai² zai²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kúi-é
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kúi-á

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gwai² zai²
  - Yale: gwái jái
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gwai² dzai²
  - Guangdong Romanization: guei² zei²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɐi̯³⁵ t͡sɐi̯³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kúi-é
  - Hakka Romanization System: gui^ˋ e^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: gui³ e³
  - Sinological IPA (Northern, incl. Miaoli): /ku̯i³¹ e³¹⁻¹¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Southern, incl. Neipu): /ku̯i³¹ e³¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kúi-á
  - Tâi-lô: kuí-á
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kuyar
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ a⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ a⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ a⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ a⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kui⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ a⁴¹/

Noun

鬼仔

(Cantonese, derogatory) male foreigner; Caucasian boy or young male
- 那就正如我們在香港一起長大的中小學同學，移民或留學外國數年，回流後便扮作鬼妹鬼仔，不是滿口只說英語便是每一句廣東話也要夾雜一兩個英文字，甚或是說有鬼佬口音的廣東話！ [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
  那就正如我们在香港一起长大的中小学同学，移民或留学外国数年，回流后便扮作鬼妹鬼仔，不是满口只说英语便是每一句广东话也要夹杂一两个英文字，甚或是说有鬼佬口音的广东话！ [Literary Cantonese, simp.]
  From: 2010, 余迪偉, 《筆舉直插》, page 11
  naa⁵ zau⁶ zing³ jyu⁴ ngo⁵ mun⁴ zoi⁶ hoeng¹ gong² jat¹ hei² zoeng² daai⁶ dik¹ zung¹ siu² hok⁶ tung⁴ hok⁶, ji⁴ man⁴ waak⁶ lau⁴ hok⁶ ngoi⁶ gwok³ sou³ nin⁴, wui⁴ lau⁴ hau⁶ bin⁶ baan⁶ zok³ gwai² mui^6-1 gwai² zai², bat¹ si⁶ mun⁵ hau² zi² syut³ jing¹ jyu⁵ bin⁶ si⁶ mui⁵ jat¹ geoi³ gwong² dung¹ waa^6-2 jaa⁵ jiu³ gaap³ zaap⁶ jat¹ loeng⁵ go³ jing¹ man^4-2 zi⁶, sam⁶ waak⁶ si⁶ syut³ jau⁵ gwai² lou² hau² jam¹ dik¹ gwong² dung¹ waa^6-2! [Jyutping]
  It's just like our primary or secondary school classmates who grew up with us in Hong Kong. After immigrating to studying abroad for many years, when they come back, they act like foreigners. If it is not speaking only English, it is putting a few English words into every sentence of Cantonese, or even speaking Cantonese with a whitewashed accent.
(Taiwanese Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka) ghost
(Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) little devil from hell
(Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien, playing cards) joker
(Quanzhou Hokkien) domestic servant (used by women as a nickname, sometimes in a rebuking manner)

Synonyms

(ghost):

Dialectal synonyms of 鬼 (“ghost”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		鬼
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		鬼, 鬼魂, 亡靈, 亡魂, 幽靈, 幽魂
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	鬼
	Taiwan	鬼
	Singapore	鬼, 好兄弟
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	鬼
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	鬼
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	鬼
	Xi'an	鬼
	Xining	鬼
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	鬼
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	鬼
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	鬼, 二五子
	Guilin	鬼
	Liuzhou	鬼, 矮老子
	Dagudi (Maliba)	鬼
	Reshuitang (Longling)	鬼
	Mae Salong (Lancang)	鬼
	Mae Sai (Tengchong)	鬼
	Oudomxay	鬼
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	鬼
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	鬼
Cantonese	Guangzhou	鬼
	Hong Kong	鬼, 污糟嘢, 嗰啲嘢
	Dongguan	鬼
	Singapore (Guangfu)	鬼, 好兄弟
Gan	Nanchang	鬼
Gan	Lichuan	鬼
Hakka	Meixian	鬼
	Yudu	鬼
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	鬼, 鬼仔
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	鬼, 鬼仔
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	鬼, 鬼仔
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	鬼
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	鬼, 鬼仔
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	鬼
Huizhou	Jixi	鬼
Jin	Taiyuan	鬼
Northern Min	Jian'ou	鬼
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	鬼
Southern Min	Xiamen	鬼
	Quanzhou	鬼
	Zhangzhou	鬼
	Tainan	鬼仔
	Penang (Hokkien)	鬼
	Singapore (Hokkien)	鬼, 好兄弟
	Manila (Hokkien)	鬼
	Singapore (Teochew)	鬼
Wu	Shanghai	鬼, 野客, 徐天老爺
	Suzhou	鬼
	Hangzhou (Fuyang)	鬼, 老本煙
	Wenzhou	鬼
	Jinhua	鬼
Xiang	Changsha	鬼, 矮路子, 浸老倌, 田几么, 田老倌
	Xiangxiang	鬼
	Loudi	鬼
	Hengshan	鬼

(joker): 鬼牌 (guǐpái), 皇牌, 小丑牌, 百搭牌

鬼仔

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