神出鬼没 — Chinese idiom
神出鬼没
shén chū guǐ mò
Traditional: 神出鬼沒
Meaning
- (lit.) to appear and disappear unpredictably like a spirit or a ghost
- (fig.) elusive
Character by character
- 神shéngod, spirit; divine, mysterious, supernatural
- 出chūto go out, to send out; stand; produce
- 鬼guǐghost; demon; sly, mischievous
- 没mònot, none, gone; to bury; to sink, to drown
Idioms sharing a character
- 凶神恶煞 xiōng shén è shà
- 全神贯注 quán shén guàn zhù
- 六神无主 liù shén wú zhǔ
- 兵贵神速 bīng guì shén sù
- 出神入化 chū shén rù huà
- 力尽神危 lì jìn shén wēi
- 奉若神明 fèng ruò shén míng
- 心安神闲 xīn ān shén xián
- 心旷神怡 xīn kuàng shén yí
- 心神恍惚 xīn shén huǎng hū
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