Chinese symbol for “departed”
死鬼
sǐ guǐ
devil (used jocularly or contemptuously); the departed
The closest CC-CEDICT match for departed is 死鬼 (sǐ guǐ), defined as: devil (used jocularly or contemptuously); the departed.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 死鬼.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 死亡 | sǐ wáng | to die; death |
| 杀死 (殺死) | shā sǐ | to kill |
| 死刑 | sǐ xíng | death penalty; capital punishment |
| 死者 | sǐ zhě | the dead; the deceased |
| 死去 | sǐ qù | to die |
| 打死 | dǎ sǐ | to kill; to beat to death |
| 魔鬼 | mó guǐ | devil |
| 吸血鬼 | xī xuè guǐ | leech; bloodsucking vermin |
See also: Japanese symbol for “departed”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.