幽ゆう鬼き

noun

ghost; revenant; spirit of the dead

A literary or slightly old-fashioned term for a ghost or departed soul, often with a dark or eerie nuance. Not the most common everyday word for 'ghost' (compare 幽霊).

• 古こ戦せん場じょうには今いまも幽ゆう鬼きが彷徨さまよっているという。

  They say ghosts still wander the old battlefield.

• 彼かれの目めには、まるで幽ゆう鬼きを見みたような恐きょう怖ふが浮うかんでいた。

  In his eyes was a terror as if he had seen a ghost.