- lit. to appear and disappear unpredictably like a spirit or a ghost (idiom)
- fig. elusive
Characters
- 神 (神): God
- 出 (出): 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
- 鬼 (鬼): disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; sly; crafty; resourceful (variant of 詭|诡[gui3]); one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy
- 没 (沒): (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not
Resources
- Wiktionary: 神出鬼没
- MDBG: 神出鬼没
- Examples with 神出鬼没 on Tatoeba
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