| 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 |
| Register | General |
| Numeric frequency | 0 |