Editing Gweilo (section)

== Related terms ==
''Gwai'' is one of a number of terms to referring to non-Chinese people that can be considered controversial and potentially offensive; a list of such terms is given below:<ref name="IntermediateCantonese">{{cite book|last=Yip|first=Virginia|author2=Matthews, Stephen|title=Intermediate Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook|url=https://archive.org/details/intermediatecant00yipv|url-access=limited|publisher=Routledge|year=2001|location=London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/intermediatecant00yipv/page/n184 168]–70|isbn=0-415-19387-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e5AQTRptrk0C&pg=PA68 |title=A Dictionary of Hong Kong English: Words from the Fragrant Harbor |author=Patrick J. Cummings |author2=Hans-Georg Wolf |pages=67–68 |publisher=Hong Kong University Press |year=2011 |isbn=9789888083305 |access-date=14 May 2020 |archive-date=7 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307145731/https://books.google.com/books?id=e5AQTRptrk0C&pg=PA68 |url-status=live }}</ref>

* '''''gwaijai''''' ({{linktext|鬼仔}}; {{zh|cy=gwáijái|l=ghost boy}}) for a white boy.
* '''''gwaimui''''' ({{linktext|鬼妹}}; {{zh|cy=gwáimūi|l=ghost girl}}) for a white girl.
* '''''gwaipo''''' ({{linktext|鬼婆}}; {{zh|cy=gwáipòh|l=ghost woman}}) for white woman.
* '''''baakgwai''''' ({{linktext|白鬼}}; {{zh|cy=baahkgwái|l=white ghost}}) for white people.
* '''''haakgwai''''' ({{linktext|黑鬼}}; {{zh|cy=hāakgwái|l=black ghost}}) for [[black people]].
* '''''sai yan''''' ({{linktext|西人}}; {{zh|cy=sāi yàhn|l=western person}}) for [[Western world|Westerner]]s.
* '''''yeung yan''''' ({{linktext|洋人}}; {{zh|cy=yèuhng yàhn|l=overseas person}}) for [[Western world|Westerner]]s.
* '''''ngoigwok yan''''' ({{linktext|外國人}}; {{zh|cy=ngoihgwok yàhn|l=foreign country person}}) for [[foreign national]]s.
* '''''acha''''' ({{linktext|阿差}}; {{zh|cy=achā}}; from "acchā" meaning "good" in [[Hindi]]) for [[South Asia]]ns. This term is considered offensive to South Asians local to Hong Kong, e.g., Hong Kong locals of Indian and/or Pakistani descent, and is not widely used. 
* '''''molocha''''' ({{lang|zh|摩囉差}}; {{zh|cy=mōlōchā|l=[[Moors|Mouro]] Indian}}) for [[South Asia]]ns.

=== Mandarin Chinese ===
[[File:Boxerspamphlet.png|thumb|200px|A [[Boxer Rebellion]] pamphlet, circa 1899, that refers to foreigners as ''guizi''.]]

''[[Guizi]]'' ({{linktext|鬼子}}; {{zh|p=guǐzi}}) is a [[Mandarin Chinese]] slang term for foreigners, and has a long history of being used as a racially deprecating insult.
* '''''Riben guizi''''' ({{linktext|日本鬼子}}; {{zh|p=rìběn guǐzi|l=Japanese devil}}) or '''''dongyang guizi''''' ({{linktext|東洋|鬼子}}; {{zh|p=dōngyáng guǐzi|l=east ocean devil}}) – used to refer to [[Japanese people|Japanese]]. 
* '''''Er guizi''''' ({{linktext|二鬼子}}; {{zh|p=èr guǐzi|l=second devil}}) – used to refer to the [[Korean people|Korean]] soldiers who were a part of the Japanese army during the Sino-Japanese War in World War II.<ref name="people20111216">[http://dangshi.people.com.cn/BIG5/16632423.html 第一滴血──從日方史料還原平型關之戰日軍損失 (6)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203102443/http://dangshi.people.com.cn/BIG5/16632423.html|date=3 February 2014}}. [[People's Daily]]. 16 December 2011</ref>
* '''''Yang guizi''''' ({{linktext|洋鬼子}}; {{zh|p=yáng guǐzi|l=Western/overseas devil}}) or '''''xiyang guizi''''' ({{linktext|西洋|鬼子}}; {{zh|p=xiyáng guǐzi|l=west ocean devil}}) – used to refer to [[Western world|Westerners]].

However, ''xiaogui'' ({{linktext|小鬼}}; {{zh|p=xiǎoguǐ|l=little ghost}}) is a common term in Mandarin Chinese for a child. Therefore, some argue that ''gui'' ({{lang|zh|鬼}}) in Mandarin is just a neutral word that describes something unexpected or hard to predict.{{Citation needed|date=August 2020}}

''[[Laowai]]'' ({{lang|zh|老外}}; {{zh|p=lǎowài|l=old foreigner/outsider}}) is the word most commonly used for foreigners and is a less pejorative term than ''guizi''. Although ''laowai'' literally means "old foreigner", depending on context, "old" can be both a term of endearment and one of criticism.