1 house

2 room

3 classifier: 间 jiān

4 classifier: 个 gè

1 ghost

2 demon

3 terrible

4 damnable

5 clever

6 sly

7 crafty

8 (suffix for sb with a certain vice or addiction etc)

9 one of the 28 constellations

1 devil

1 roommate

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 leech

2 bloodsucking vermin

3 vampire (translated European notion)

4 fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers

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

1 lit. to stare at the ceiling while writing a book (idiom); to put one's whole body and soul into a book

1 lit. earthen steps and a small cottage

2 frugal living conditions (idiom)

1 when it rains, it pours (idiom)

1 when it rains, it pours (idiom)