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])[1]
IPA^(key): [ɾe̞ːkʲi]

Noun

霊(れい)鬼(き) • (reiki)

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)

References

2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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