ghost

to hang around; to fool around; to live aimlessly

lie; false words; nonsense; CL:篇[pian1]

devil (derog. term for foreign invaders); (esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931–1945) Jap; Nip

(idiom) sneaky; secretive; furtive

nonsense; humbug; bunk; bullshit

creative genius

hobgoblin; bogey; phantom

ghost story

will-o'-the-wisp; jack-o'-lantern

haunted house

supernatural beings

wry face; to grimace; to pull a face; comic face; face mask; devil mask

the gates of hell

foreigner (Cantonese); Westerner

ghost town

(coll.) to holler; to squawk

Caucasian woman (Cantonese)

haunted house

ghost movie

Joker (playing card)

evil spirit; sneaky; secretive

(coll.) rigged scale (used to deceive customers by displaying incorrect weight)

sinister design; ulterior motive

see 中元節|中元节[Zhong1 yuan2 jie2]

treacherous person; evil spirit

beggarticks (genus Bidens)

(originally Cantonese) impish; playful; quirky; paper horse used in traditional funeral rites

demon; evil spirit

demon

(bird species of China) boreal owl (Aegolius funereus)

spot baldness (alopecia areata)

(coll.) sleep paralysis

see 鬼壓床|鬼压床[gui3 ya1 chuang2]

dirty trick; monkey business

awful weather

who would believe it!; what rubbish!

unable to restrain oneself; pulling and tugging at each other

sinister plot; dirty trick; cheap trick

(coll.) sudden emergence of a person or vehicle from a blind spot (esp. into oncoming traffic)

(dialect) flaming mad; furious

undecipherable handwriting; scribblings; (fig.) hypocritical talk

selective blindness caused by a ghost, whereby one fails to notice obvious dangers

beggarticks (Bidens pilosa)

demons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation; curious coincidence

(idiom) to wail and scream loudly

sneaky; furtive

lit. ghosts are afraid of evil too; an evil person fears someone even more evil (idiom)

(idiom) muddled; momentarily confused