餓鬼

Japanese [edit]

Kanji in this term
餓	鬼

餓鬼 (hiragana がき, romaji gaki)

(slang) brat
(Buddhism) Preta, the spirit of a jealous or greedy person who, as punishment for mortal vices, has been cursed with an insatiable hunger

Hanja in this word
餓	鬼

餓鬼 (agwi)

Hanja form^? of 아귀, “(literally: "hungry ghost") a ravenous or voracious person”.

simpl.		饿鬼
trad.		餓鬼

餓鬼 (traditional, Pinyin èguǐ, simplified 饿鬼)

(Buddhism) hungry ghost; one of the six realms of reincarnation in Buddhist cosmology
the spirit of a jealous or greedy person who, as punishment for mortal vices, has been cursed with an insatiable hunger