鬼压床
guǐ yā chuáng
Pinyin

Definition

鬼压床
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guǐ yā chuáng
  1. (coll.) sleep paralysis

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

chuáng
  1. 1 bed
  2. 2 couch
  3. 3 classifier for beds
  4. 4 CL:張|张[zhāng]
qǐ chuáng
  1. 1 to get out of bed
  2. 2 to get up
guǐ
  1. 1 ghost
  2. 2 demon
  3. 3 terrible
  4. 4 damnable
  5. 5 clever
  6. 6 sly
  7. 7 crafty
  8. 8 (suffix for sb with a certain vice or addiction etc)
  9. 9 one of the 28 constellations
shàng chuáng
  1. 1 to go to bed
  2. 2 (coll.) to have sex
xī xuè guǐ
  1. 1 leech
  2. 2 bloodsucking vermin
  3. 3 vampire (translated European notion)
  4. 4 fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
chuáng dān
  1. 1 bed sheet
  2. 2 CL:條|条[tiáo],件[jiàn],張|张[zhāng],床[chuáng]
chuáng tóu
  1. 1 bedhead
  2. 2 bedside
  3. 3 headboard
bìng chuáng
  1. 1 hospital bed
  2. 2 sickbed
dǎn xiǎo guǐ
  1. 1 coward
lín chuáng
  1. 1 clinical
jiàn guǐ
  1. 1 curse it!
  2. 2 to hell with it!
lài chuáng
  1. 1 to have a lie-in
  2. 2 to dawdle in bed
jiǔ guǐ
  1. 1 drunkard
guǐ zi
  1. 1 devils
  2. 2 refers to 日本鬼子, wartime term insult for Japanese
mó guǐ
  1. 1 devil
shàng xià chuáng
  1. 1 bunk bed
zuò guǐ
  1. 1 to play tricks
  2. 2 to cheat
  3. 3 to get up to mischief
  4. 4 to become a ghost
  5. 5 to give up the ghost
mào shi guǐ
  1. 1 reckless person
  2. 2 hothead
lì guǐ
  1. 1 malicious spirit
  2. 2 devil
jiào chuáng
  1. 1 to cry out in ecstasy (during lovemaking)

Idioms (19)

五鬼闹判
wǔ guǐ nào pàn
  1. 1 Five ghosts mock the judge, or Five ghosts resist judgment (title of folk opera, idiom); important personage mobbed by a crowd of ne'er-do-wells
同床异梦
tóng chuáng yì mèng
  1. 1 lit. to share the same bed with different dreams (idiom); ostensible partners with different agendas
  2. 2 strange bedfellows
  3. 3 marital dissension
引鬼上门
yǐn guǐ shàng mén
  1. 1 to invite the devil to one's house (idiom)
  2. 2 to introduce a potential source of trouble
心中有鬼
xīn zhōng yǒu guǐ
  1. 1 to harbor ulterior motives (idiom)
敬鬼神而远之
jìng guǐ shén ér yuǎn zhī
  1. 1 to respect Gods and demons from a distance (idiom); to remain at a respectful distance
有钱能使鬼推磨
yǒu qián néng shǐ guǐ tuī mò
  1. 1 lit. money will make the Devil turn millstones (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. with money, you can do anything you like
狼号鬼哭
láng háo guǐ kū
  1. 1 lit. wolves howling, devils groaning (idiom); pathetic screams
神出鬼没
shén chū guǐ mò
  1. 1 lit. to appear and disappear unpredictably like a spirit or a ghost (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. elusive
神工鬼斧
shén gōng guǐ fǔ
  1. 1 supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods
  2. 2 uncanny workmanship
  3. 3 superlative craftsmanship
神差鬼使
shén chāi guǐ shǐ
  1. 1 the work of gods and devils (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation
  2. 2 curious coincidence
装神弄鬼
zhuāng shén nòng guǐ
  1. 1 lit. dress up as God, play the devil (idiom); fig. to mystify
  2. 2 to deceive people
  3. 3 to scam
阎王好见,小鬼难当
Yán wáng hǎo jiàn , xiǎo guǐ nán dāng
  1. 1 lit. standing in front of the King of Hell is easy, but smaller devils are difficult to deal with (idiom)
鬼使神差
guǐ shǐ shén chāi
  1. 1 demons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation
  2. 2 curious coincidence
鬼哭狼嚎
guǐ kū láng háo
  1. 1 to wail like ghosts and howl like wolves (idiom)
鬼怕恶人
guǐ pà è rén
  1. 1 lit. ghosts are afraid of evil too
  2. 2 an evil person fears someone even more evil (idiom)
鬼斧神工
guǐ fǔ shén gōng
  1. 1 supernaturally fine craft (idiom); the work of the Gods
  2. 2 uncanny workmanship
  3. 3 superlative craftsmanship
鬼由心生
guǐ yóu xīn shēng
  1. 1 devils are born in the heart (idiom)
  2. 2 fears originate in the mind
鬼计多端
guǐ jì duō duān
  1. 1 full of devilish tricks and cunning stratagems (idiom)
  2. 2 sly
  3. 3 crafty
  4. 4 malicious
鬼话连篇
guǐ huà lián piān
  1. 1 to tell one lie after another (idiom)
  2. 2 to talk nonsense
  3. 3 bogus story

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