Illustration: In an Edo household at night, a pale human apparition in a plain burial robe floats halfway through a closed wooden door. Its lower body fades before reaching the floor, and the door's slats remain visible through its torso.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

幽ゆう霊れい

yuurei

ghost

Example sentences

その家いえには幽霊ゆうれいが出でるといわれる。
The house is said to be haunted.
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幽霊ゆうれいは存在そんざいする。
Ghosts exist.
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突然とつぜん幽霊ゆうれいは消きえた。
The ghost vanished suddenly.
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Kanji in 幽霊

幽seclude; confine to a roomOnユウKunふかい・かすか・くらい
霊spirits; soulOnレイ・リョウKunたま

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