五鬼闹判 wǔ guǐ nào pàn

riffraff crowding an important person

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. Five ghosts mock the judge, or Five ghosts resist judgment (title of folk opera, idiom); important personage mobbed by a crowd of ne'er-do-wells

Characters

Character Meaning
five; 5
ghost; demon
variant of nào; noisy; cacophonous
to judge; to sentence; to discern