Chinese symbol for “imp”
小鬼
xiǎo guǐ
little demon (term of endearment for a child); mischievous child; imp
The closest CC-CEDICT match for imp is 小鬼 (xiǎo guǐ), defined as: little demon (term of endearment for a child); mischievous child; imp.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 小鬼.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小时 (小時) | xiǎo shí | hour |
| 小说 (小說) | xiǎo shuō | novel; fiction |
| 小学 (小學) | xiǎo xué | elementary school; primary school |
| 小姐 | xiǎo jie | young lady; miss |
| 小组 (小組) | xiǎo zǔ | group |
| 小孩 | xiǎo hái | child; 个 (gè) |
| 魔鬼 | mó guǐ | devil |
| 吸血鬼 | xī xuè guǐ | leech; bloodsucking vermin |
See also: Japanese symbol for “imp”.
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.