| 神出鬼没 |
shén chū - guǐ mò |
lit. to appear and disappear unpredictably like a spirit or a ghost (idiom) / fig. elusive |
| 神 |
Shén |
God |
| 神 |
shén |
god; deity / supernatural; magical; mysterious / spirit; mind; energy / lively; expressive / look; expression / (coll.) awesome; amazing |
| 出 |
chū |
to go out; to come out / to arise; to occur / to produce; to yield / to go beyond; to exceed / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc |
| 出 |
chū |
variant of 出 (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels) |
| 鬼 |
guǐ |
disembodied spirit; ghost; devil / (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc / sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 诡) / one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy |
| 没 |
méi |
(negative prefix for verbs) have not; not |
| 没 |
mò |
drowned / to end / to die / to inundate |