「養鬼仔」
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| Pronunciation： | joeng5 gwai2 zai2 |
| Individual Character Meaning： |
養 to raise (kid), to keep (pet); to raise; to keep; to grow; to form; to acquire; to cultivate; to cure 鬼 ghost; spirit; traitor; the rat; joker; awful; dreadful 仔 son; boyfriend; to soften the tone |
| Part of Speech： | verb |
| Explanation： |
"to raise a fetus/child ghost" by keeping a doll or its mummy in exchange of help and thus luck, a practice related to fetus/child ghost cult in East and Southeast Asia and generally regarded as black magic
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