The Chinese Radical: 鬼


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Meaning
devil, demon, ghost    鬼

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 5
devil, ghost, sly, crafty
guǐ
From top: death mask (accent ノ, field 田), legs 儿, nose 厶
The dead mask with legs and nose looks like a devil.  
HSK 5
ugly, shameful, disgraceful, clown
chǒu
Traditionally 醜, which shows alcohol 酉 and the devil 鬼.
The devil was simplified to the ugly: 丑  
HSK 5
ashamed, remorse
kuì
Left: feeling 忄, right: devil 鬼
The feeling in face of the devil is ashamed and remorseful.  
HSK 5
demon, devil, magic, to charm
mèi
Left: demon 鬼 (death mask [accent ノ, field 田], legs 儿, nose 厶), right: not yet 未 (The upper shorter branch 一 of the tree 木 is "not yet")
The devil has not yet 'deviled'.  
HSK 6
devil

Outside and top: hemp 麻 (The building 广 in the forest 林 is for the hemp), bottom: demon 鬼 (death mask [accent ノ, field 田], legs 儿, nose 厶>)
Hemp is a demon like the devil.  
HSK 6
soul, spirit
hún
Left: cloud 云 (It can drip from both 二, namely from noses 厶 or: clouds), right: devil 鬼 (death mask [accent ノ, Field 田], legs 儿, nose 厶)
The cloud next to the devil is his soul.  
HSK 6
soul, spirit, vigor

Left: white 白 (The shine ノ of the sun 日 makes it white.), right: demon/devil 鬼
The "white" devil determines your soul.  
no HSK
'Wei' (one of the Warring States)
wèi
Left: entrust 委 (Rice plants 禾 can women 女 be entrusted.), right: devil 鬼
For the rice plants, the women quarreled like devils in the state: 'Wei' during the warring states.  
no HSK
extraordinary, (semi-precious stone)
guī
Left: king, jade 王, right: devil 鬼
The jade of the devil is extraordinary.  
no HSK
Chinese scholar tree (Sophora japonica), Japanese pagoda tree
huái
Left: tree 木, right: demon, devil 鬼
The tree of the deval is the: Chinese scholar tree  
no HSK
lofty, towering
wēi
Top: mountain 山, bottom: Wei-Dynasty 魏 (entrust 委 [Rice plants 禾 can women 女 be entrusted], devil 鬼)
The mountains in the Wei-dynasty were lofty.  
no HSK
chief, head, outstanding, exceptional, stalwart
kuí
Left: devil, demon 鬼, right: measure of volume 斗(1 Dou = 10 l; stylized ladle with sth. in it)
He is (strict) like a devil, but also distributes with a ladle: The chief.  
no HSK
puppet, strange, exotic
kuǐ
Left: person 亻, right: devil 鬼
(Often used in a puppet shows) The person of the devil is a puppet.  

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