yūrei

a word from vocabulary Japanese by Christopher K. Schmidt  
Word form yūrei
Original script 幽霊
LWT meaning(s)
Word meaning Original meaning “spirit of the dead”, later (1516) taking on the sense of “spirits wandering the earth”
Analyzability analyzable compound
Gloss yū-rei seclude-spirit
Age Late Old Japanese [21] (794–1185)
Lexical stratum kango
Year 1089
Comparison with Mandarin different frequency
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Numeric frequency 0