像鬼

Chinese

		(look) like; similar (to); appearance (look) like; similar (to); appearance; to appear; to seem; image; portrait; resemble; seem	ghost; sly; crafty
trad. (像鬼)		像	鬼
simp. #(像鬼)		像	鬼

Pronunciation

• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): qiong⁴ gui³

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• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: qiong⁴ gui³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰiɔŋ⁵³⁻⁵⁵ kuɪ³¹/

Adjective

像鬼

1. (Hakka) ugly

   新屋仰仔會做到恁像鬼？ [Meixian Hakka, trad.]
   新屋仰仔会做到恁像鬼？ [Meixian Hakka, simp.]

   sin¹ vug⁵ ngiong⁴ ê³ voi⁴ zo⁴ do³ an³ qiong⁴ gui³? [Hakka Transliteration Scheme]

   Why is the newly built house so ugly?

2. (Hakka) messy

Synonyms

• (ugly):

Dialectal synonyms of 醜 (“ugly”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		醜, 媸
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		醜陋
Mandarin	Beijing	難看, 寒磣, 磣
	Taiwan	難看, 醜
	Jinan	難看, 醜
	Xi'an	難看, 醜, 不心疼
	Wuhan	醜, 不好看
	Chengdu	難看, 醜
	Yangzhou	難看, 醜
	Hefei	難看, 醜, 相壞
	Singapore	難看, 醜
Cantonese	Guangzhou	難睇, 醜, 醜怪, 樣衰, 醜樣, 肉酸, 核突
	Hong Kong	難睇, 醜, 醜怪, 樣衰, 醜樣, 肉酸, 核突
	Dongguan	難睞
	Yangjiang	惡看, 醜鬼
Gan	Nanchang	不客氣, 難看
Hakka	Meixian	難看, 難睞, 醜, 像鬼
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	媸, 醜
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	媸, 醜
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	媸, 醜
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	媸, 醜
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	媸, 醜
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	䆀
Jin	Taiyuan	難看, 醜
Northern Min	Jian'ou	驚人, 毛格式, 生得呆
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	驚儂, 驚, 伓好看, 生得呆
Southern Min	Xiamen	歹看, 㾀勢
	Quanzhou	兇, 歹看, 㾀勢
	Jinjiang	兇, 歹看, 㾀勢
	Zhangzhou	䆀看, 㾀勢
	Taipei	歹看, 䆀, 䆀材, 㾀, 䆀猴, 㾀勢
	Kaohsiung	歹看
	Singapore (Hokkien)	歹看, 䆀
	Manila (Hokkien)	兇, 歹看, 㾀勢
	Chaozhou	孬睇, 野樣, 䆀
	Shantou	野樣
	Jieyang	野樣
	Singapore (Teochew)	歹睇
Wu	Shanghai	難看, 怕
	Shanghai (Jiading)	怕
	Shanghai (Songjiang)	怕
	Suzhou	難看, 怕
	Kunshan	難看
	Jiaxing	難看
	Hangzhou	難看
	Ningbo	難看
	Wenzhou	難覷, 否好覷, 醜
Xiang	Changsha	醜, 不好看, 不打彩
	Shuangfeng	醜, 不好看