鬼節

Chinese

		ghost; sly; crafty	festival; section; segment festival; section; segment; point; part; to economize; to save; temperate
trad. (鬼節)		鬼	節
simp. (鬼节)		鬼	节

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): guǐjié

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄟˇ ㄐㄧㄝˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gwai² zit³
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gui³ ze⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kúi-chiat

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: guǐjié
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄟˇ ㄐㄧㄝˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: guěijié
  - Wade–Giles: kuei³-chieh²
  - Yale: gwěi-jyé
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goeijye
  - Palladius: гуйцзе (gujcze)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gwai² zit³
  - Yale: gwái jit
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gwai² dzit⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: guei² jid³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɐi̯³⁵ t͡siːt̚³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: gui³ ze⁶ [Phonetic: gui² ze⁶]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gûi-cā̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kui⁴⁵³⁻¹³ t͡se¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: gui³ ze⁶ [Phonetic: gui² ze⁶]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kui³³²⁻²⁴ t͡se²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kúi-chiat
  - Tâi-lô: kuí-tsiat
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kuyciad
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siɛt̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kui⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡siɛt̚⁵/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siɛt̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siɛt̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kui⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡siɛt̚³²/

Noun

鬼節

ghost festival, in particular:
1. The Chinese festival known as 中元節／中元节 (zhōngyuánjié).
2. Halloween
3. Day of the Dead

Synonyms

(Chinese festival): 中元節／中元节 (zhōngyuánjié), 地官誕／地官诞, 盂蘭盆會／盂兰盆会 (Yúlánpénhuì), 盂蘭盆節／盂兰盆节 (Yúlánpénjié), 普渡 (pǔdù), 七月半 (qīyuèbàn); (Jin) 七月十五; (Hokkien) 鬼仔節／鬼仔节, 徛旗, 普祀
(Halloween): 萬聖夜／万圣夜 (wànshèngyè), 萬聖節／万圣节 (Wànshèngjié)
(Day of the Dead): 亡靈節／亡灵节

Descendants

English: Ghost Festival

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “鬼节”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 249.