幽霊

Japanese

Kanji in this term
幽	霊

Noun

幽霊 (hiragana ゆうれい, romaji yūrei)

1. ghost, phantom

Derived terms

• 幽霊屋敷 (ゆうれいやしき, yūrei yashiki) (“a haunted house”)
• 幽霊文字 (ゆうれいもじ, yūrei-moji): (linguistics) Ghost Characters; Chinese characters of unknown origin or meaning.

Synonyms

• お化け (おばけ, obake) (“a ghost, a monster”)
• 死霊 (しりょう, shiryō; しれい, shirei) (“a spirit of the dead, a ghost, a departed soul”)

See also

• 幽霊 on the Japanese Wikipedia.ja.Wikipedia
• Yūrei on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Yūrei
• 幽体離脱 (ゆうたいりだつ, yūtairidatsu): out-of-body experience