見鬼 [见－]

Jyutping gin3 gwai2
Pinyin jiàn guǐ

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. absurd
  2. strange
  3. (interj.) curse it!
  4. to hell with it!
Definitions (CC-CANTO)
  1. (adverb) Holy shit!
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. verb
    to go to hell (as an expression of anger)
    • 見鬼去吧！
      见鬼去吧！
      jiàn guǐ qù ba ！
      To hell with it!
  2. verb, figuratively
    to have bad luck; to be ridiculous; to be absurd; to be funny
    (syn.) 撞邪, 撞鬼
    • 真是見鬼了
      真是见鬼了
      zhēn shì jiàn guǐ le
      how strange / what a bad day
  3. verb, literally
    to see a ghost
Definitions (Kaifangcidian)
  1. （沒有對應漢語詞彙）
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
  1. Mandarin
    关上见鬼的门！
    關上見鬼的門！
    guān shàng jiàn guǐ de mén ！
    • Close the damned door!
  2. Mandarin
    你看起来像是见鬼了。
    你看起來像是見鬼了。
    nǐ kàn qǐ lai xiàng shì jiàn guǐ le 。
    • You look like you've seen a ghost!
Examples (粵典–words.hk)
  1. Cantonese
    见人讲人话，见鬼讲鬼话
    見人講人話，見鬼講鬼話
    • To a person, he speaks like a person; to a ghost, he speaks like a ghost.
  2. Cantonese
    乜都未买已经负债累累 ，呢个月已经连本来用嚟配con嘅钱都用埋 ，真系越穷越见鬼。
    乜都未買已經負債累累 ，呢個月已經連本來用嚟配con嘅錢都用埋 ，真係越窮越見鬼。
    yue:乜都未買已經負債累累 ，呢個月已經連本來用嚟配con嘅錢都用埋 ，真係越窮越見鬼。
    • I'm already in debt before I've even bought anything, and this month I've already spent all the money I had on contact lenses, so the poorer I get, the worse I get.
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    这位书生胆子很大，总是想见见鬼的样子，却都没见到。
    這位書生膽子很大，總是想見見鬼的樣子，卻都沒見到。
    zhè wèi shū shēng dǎn zi hěn dà ， zǒng shì xiǎng jiàn jian guǐ de yàng zi ， què dōu méi jiàn dào ．
    • There was a [very brave] scholar, who had always wanted to see a ghost but never had.
  2. Mandarin
    见鬼去吧！
    見鬼去吧！
    jiàn guǐ qù ba ！
    • To hell with it!
  3. Mandarin
    真是见鬼了
    真是見鬼了
    zhēn shì jiàn guǐ le
    • how strange / what a bad day