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人不知鬼不覺

简人不知鬼不觉 · 繁人不知鬼不覺

Mandarin · pinyin rén bù zhī guǐ bù jué

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人: rén · man; people; mankind; someone else
不: bù · no, not; un-; negative prefix
知: zhī · know, perceive, comprehend
鬼: guǐ · ghost; spirit of dead; devil; Kangxi radical 194; 23rd lunar mansion, determinative star θ Cancri
覺: Look up this written character
觉: jué · to wake up from sleep; conscious

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

2–4–1–3–4–2 · ren2 bu4 zhi1 gui3 bu4 jue2

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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 1 sense · 1 Cantonese reading

jan4 bat1 zi1 gwai2 bat1 gok3

Pleco · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Word reading; meanings not aligned.

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(alt-of, alternative, idiomatic) alternative form of 人不知，鬼不覺 /人不知，鬼不觉 (rén bù zhī, guǐ bù jué, “very secret or mysterious”)