- demons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural explanation
- curious coincidence
Characters
- 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
- 使 (使): to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- 神 (神): God
- 差 (差): difference; discrepancy; (math.) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction); (literary) a little; somewhat; slightly
Resources
- Wiktionary: 鬼使神差
- MDBG: 鬼使神差
- Examples with 鬼使神差 on Tatoeba
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