| 幽灵 | yōu líng | specter / apparition / ghost |   |
| 飘飘 | piāo piāo | to float about / to flutter (in the breeze) / (dialect) gay guy / (Tw) ghost | |
| 鬼魂 | guǐ hún | ghost | |
| 异物 | yì wù | rarity / rare delicacy / foreign matter / alien body / the dead / ghost / monstrosity / alien life-form | |
| 幽魂 | yōu hún | ghost / spirit (of the dead) | |
| 阴魂 | yīn hún | ghost / spirit | |
| 鬼 |  guǐ | ghost / demon / terrible / damnable / clever / sly / crafty / (suffix for sb with a certain vice or addiction etc) / one of the 28 constellations | |
| 残影 | cán yǐng | ghost | |
| 阿飘 | ā piāo | (coll.) ghost (Tw) | |
| 澳洲假吸血蝠属 | ào zhōu jiǎ xī xuè fú shǔ | Ghost | |
| 无常 | wú cháng | variable / changeable / fickle / impermanence (Sanskrit: anitya) / ghost taking away the soul after death / to pass away / to die | |
| 冥界 | míng jiè | ghost world | |
| 圣灵 | Shèng líng | Holy Ghost / Holy Spirit | |
| 鬼故事 | guǐ gù shi | ghost story | |
| 神出鬼没 | shén chū guǐ mò | lit. to appear and disappear unpredictably like a spirit or a ghost (idiom) / fig. elusive | |
| 冤魂 | yuān hún | ghost of one who died unjustly / departed spirit demanding vengeance for grievances | |
| 代写 | dài xiě | to write as substitute for sb / a ghost writer / plagiarism | |
| 饿鬼 | è guǐ | sb who is always hungry / glutton / (Buddhism) hungry ghost | |
| 做鬼 | zuò guǐ | to play tricks / to cheat / to get up to mischief / to become a ghost / to give up the ghost | |
| 死城 | sǐ chéng | ghost town | |
| 中元节 | Zhōng yuán jié | Ghost Festival on 15th day of 7th lunar month when offerings are made to the deceased | |
| 冥婚 | míng hūn | posthumous or ghost marriage (in which at least one of the bride and groom is dead) | |
| 伥 | chāng | ghost of sb devoured by a tiger who helps the tiger devour others | |
| 一命呜呼 | yī mìng wū hū | to die (idiom) / to breathe one's last / to give up the ghost | |
| 篝火狐鸣 | gōu huǒ hú míng | to tell fox ghost stories around a bonfire and incite rebellion / an uprising is afoot (idiom) | |
| 魊 | yù | ghost of a child | |
| 吊死鬼 | diào sǐ guǐ | ghost of a person who died by hanging / hanged person / (coll.) inchworm / hangman (word game) | |
| 中元 | Zhōng yuán | Ghost Festival on 15th day of 7th lunar month when offerings are made to the deceased | |
| 伥鬼 | chāng guǐ | ghost of sb devoured by a tiger who helps the tiger devour others | |
| 冥道 | míng dào | the gateway to the ghost world | |
| 刘涓子鬼遗方 | Liú Juān zǐ guǐ yí fāng | Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui 黃父鬼|黄父鬼 | |
| 断魂椒 | duàn hún jiāo | king cobra or ghost chili (Naga jolokia) | |
| 狐女 | hú nu:3 | fox lady / in folk stories, a beautiful girl who will seduce you then reveal herself as a ghost | |
| 鬼扯脚 | guǐ chě jiǎo | lit. ghost pulls your leg / involuntary tug of muscles / fig. very unlucky / fig. argumentative / fig. can't help doing it | |
| 黄父鬼 | Huáng fù guǐ | Huang Fugui, ghost of legends who provided Liu Juanzi with his magical recipes 劉涓子鬼遺方|刘涓子鬼遗方 | |
| 幻影捕鱼 | huàn yǐng bǔ yú | ghost fishing | |
| 鬼捕鱼 | guǐ bǔ yú | ghost fishing | |
| "幽灵"被拘留者 | | ghost detainee | |
| 鬼网 | | ghost net | |
| 鬼印 | | ghost print | |
| 嗝儿屁 | gé r pì | (dialect) to die / to give up the ghost | |
| 歌台 | gē tái | boisterous live show held during the Ghost Festival 中元節|中元节[Zhong1 yuan2 jie2] in Singapore and other parts of Southeast Asia | |
| 精怪 | jīng guài | supernatural being (such as a demon, monster, ghost, spirit, gremlin etc) | |
| 鬼遮眼 | guǐ zhē yǎn | selective blindness caused by a ghost, whereby one fails to notice obvious dangers | |
