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From :   loetji

Date : 2011-02-15 / 04:44PM

Nihao laoshi,

in films I watched I often heard " Ni gan shen me gui ? " since I know the meaning is “what are you doing” , I wonder what is ‘gui’ in this context, It isn’t ghost, is it ?

xiexie ni.

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher askbenny.net 
2011-02-15 / 06:18PM

Hi Loetji,

Gui does mean ghost, but in this context it functions as a kind of “exaggeration”

So the whole sentence means "what on earth/ the hell are you doing?

Cheers!

Benny


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