霊鬼

Japanese

Kanji in this term
霊	鬼
れい Grade: S	き Grade: S
kan’on	on’yomi

Alternative spelling
靈鬼 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) れ​ーき [réꜜèkì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɾe̞ːkʲi]

Noun

霊(れい)鬼(き) • (reiki) 

1. a spirit of the dead (particularly malevolent)

See also

• 座敷童子, 座敷童 (zashiki warashi): a red-faced ghost of a child haunting an old house (appearing in folk tales told in the northeast of Japan)