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漢字Kanji

鬼: ghost, devil

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

甶, 儿 and 厶 are drawn in

10 strokes
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Today

Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

キki · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 鬼神きしんfierce god
  • 吸血鬼きゅうけつき
  • 鬼才きさいwizard; genius; remarkable talent
  • 鬼気ききghastly; dreadful

おにoni · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 鬼おにogre; demon; oni
  • 鬼ごっこおにごっこtag (children's game); tig

Also read おに-, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
儿

Also built on human legs (儿)

All 16
厶

Also built on private (厶)

All 18

鬼 gives its sound to

Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read キ

55 kanji share this on'yomiAll 55

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
鬼 ghost · 甶 + 儿 + 厶
vs卑 lowly · 丿 + 田 + 十
鬼 has 甶 + 儿 + 厶 where 卑 has 丿 + 田 + 十.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · guǐ

Same form: 鬼 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
鬼 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
鬼 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin guǐ most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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