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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「鬼計百端」 and how it’s used.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「鬼計百端」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

It means there are many cunning schemes and bad ideas. Same as “full of tricks”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

guǐ jì bǎi duān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gwai2 gai3/gai2 baak3 dyun1

The world of Chinese idioms is immense, with countless meanings and applications to discover. We hope these resources help you unlock the beauty of learning Chinese.