鬼 (guǐ): disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 詭|诡[gui3]); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy

When I was little, my grandmother often told me ghost stories, which scared me so much that I didn't dare go to the toilet alone at night.

In Fengdu, Sichuan, there is a famous ghost city that attracts many tourists every year to experience the legends of the underworld.

The ghost in that movie wasn't scary at all; instead, it was kind and even helped the protagonist in the end.

He was pale and spoke weakly, and his colleagues all said he looked like a ghost.

In folk legends, people become ghosts after death, so people often worship ancestral ghosts during the Qingming Festival.