幽霊
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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幽 | 霊 |
ゆう Grade: S |
れい Grade: S |
on'yomi |
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幽靈 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese compound 幽靈/幽灵 (ʔjiw leng, literally “dark + supernatural”). Compare modern (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin reading yōulíng, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Min Nan iu-lêng.
Pronunciation
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Noun
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Synonyms
Synonyms
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 幽霊烏賊 (yūreiika)
- 幽霊会社 (yūreigaisha): a phantom company: a paper company, a company that exists in name only
- 幽霊株 (yūrei kabu): phantom shares, phantom stock: company stock that has not actually been traded, but for which a sale or purchase is fraudulently recorded
- 幽霊蜘蛛 (yūreigumo): daddy longlegs spider
- 幽霊人口 (yūrei jinkō): phantom population: population figures that are artificially inflated from fraudulent paperwork
- 幽霊船 (yūreisen): a ghost ship
- 幽霊茸 (yūreitake)
- 幽霊の正体見たり枯れ尾花 (yūrei no shōtai mitari kare obana)
- 幽霊の浜風 (yūrei no hamakaze)
- 幽霊花 (yūreibana)
- 幽霊火 (yūreibi)
- 幽霊文字 (yūrei moji): ghost characters, Chinese characters of unknown origin or meaning
- 幽霊屋敷 (yūrei yashiki): a haunted house
References
- Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
Okinawan
Etymology
Cognate with Japanese 幽霊 (yūrei).