小鬼
xiǎo guǐ
Pinyin

Definition

小鬼
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xiǎo guǐ
  1. little demon (term of endearment for a child)
  2. mischievous child
  3. imp

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

小
xiǎo
  1. 1 small
  2. 2 tiny
  3. 3 few
  4. 4 young
小小
xiǎo xiǎo
  1. 1 very small
  2. 2 very few
  3. 3 very minor
小时
xiǎo shí
  1. 1 hour
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
吸血鬼
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
大大小小
dà dà xiǎo xiǎo
  1. 1 large and small
  2. 2 of all sizes

Idioms (20)

上有老下有小
shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo
  1. 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
  3. 3 sandwich generation
不拘小节
bù jū xiǎo jié
  1. 1 to not bother about trifles (idiom)
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
以小人之心，度君子之腹
yǐ xiǎo rén zhī xīn , duó jūn zǐ zhī fù
  1. 1 to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)
以小挤大
yǐ xiǎo jǐ dà
  1. 1 minor projects eclipse major ones (idiom)

Sample Sentences

通常我们会避免办喜事或者出远门。因为大家觉得这时候鬼门关大开，大鬼小鬼都出来啦！不太吉利。
tōngcháng wǒmen huì bìmiǎn bàn xǐshì huòzhě chū yuǎn mén 。yīnwèi dàjiā juéde zhèshíhòu guǐménguān dàkāi ，dàguǐ xiǎoguǐ dōu chūlai la ！bù tài jílì 。
Usually we try to avoid having weddings or going on a long trip. This is because everyone believes that the portal to the realm of ghosts is wide open. All the ghosts, big and small, come out! So it's not very lucky.
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胆小鬼
dǎnxiǎoguǐ
coward
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秦阿姨嗓门很大：“这些小鬼成天打碎人家玻璃，还不老实交待问题。”
Qín āyí sǎngmén hěndà ：“zhèxiē xiǎoguǐ chéngtiān dǎsuì rénjiā bōli ，hái bù lǎoshi jiāodài wèntí 。”
Mrs. Qin said in a loud voice, "These little rascals are running around breaking people's windows all day, and they still won't own up to who did it."
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真是个胆小鬼！越快越好，太刺激了！哎，怎么这么快就停了？
zhēn shì gè dǎnxiǎoguǐ ！yuè kuài yuè hǎo ，tài cìjī le ！āi ，zěnme zhème kuài jiù tíng le ？
What a wimp you are! The faster, the better! This is so exciting! Huh?! How come it stopped so soon?
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哎，你怎么跑了？你这个胆小鬼！
āi ，nǐ zěnme pǎo le ？nǐ zhè ge dǎnxiǎoguǐ ！
Ah, how can you run? You coward!
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