作怪

Chinese

		to regard as; to take (somebody) for; to do to regard as; to take (somebody) for; to do; to make	queer; to blame
simp. and trad. (作怪)		作	怪

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zuòguài

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄍㄨㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zok³ gwaai³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chok-koai
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chok-koài

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zuòguài
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄍㄨㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zuòguài
    • Wade–Giles: tso⁴-kuai⁴
    • Yale: dzwò-gwài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuohguay
    • Palladius: цзогуай (czoguaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ku̯aɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zok³ gwaai³
    • Yale: jok gwaai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzok⁸ gwaai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zog³ guai³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔːk̚³ kʷaːi̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chok-koai
    • Hakka Romanization System: zog` guai
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zog⁵ guai⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sok̚² ku̯ai̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chok-koài
    • Tâi-lô: tsok-kuài
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zokkoaix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sɔk̚³²⁻⁴ kuai²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ kuai⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔk̚³²⁻⁵ kuai²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sɔk̚³²⁻⁴ kuai¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sɔk̚³²⁻⁴ kuai²¹/

Verb

作怪

1. to do mischief; to make trouble

   • 所以，一切脫離群眾的行為，並沒有任何的根據，只是我們一部分同志自己造出來的宗派主義思想在那裡作怪。 [MSC, trad.]
     所以，一切脱离群众的行为，并没有任何的根据，只是我们一部分同志自己造出来的宗派主义思想在那里作怪。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1942, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《整頓黨的作風》 (Rectify the Party's Style of Work), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Suǒyǐ, yīqiè tuōlí qúnzhòng de xíngwéi, bìng méiyǒu rènhé de gēnjù, zhǐshì wǒmen yībùfen tóngzhì zìjǐ zào chulai de zōngpài zhǔyì sīxiǎng zài nàlǐ zuòguài. [Pinyin]

     Thus any action divorcing us from the masses has no justification at all and is simply the mischievous result of the sectarian ideas some of our comrades have themselves concocted.

Derived terms

• 醜人多作怪／丑人多作怪 (chǒu rén duō zuòguài)