Mogwai

:For the Scottish post-rock band, see Mogwai (band).

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The word mogwai can be an alternate transliteration of the Mandarin Chinese word 魔怪 (pinyin：m?gu?i) meaning "ghost", "evil spirit", or "demon"; or perhaps the Cantonese pronunciation of ?? ("devil").

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As depicted in the 1984 Joe Dante film Gremlins and its 1990 sequel ', the word mogwai is used by some Chinese to describe a rare sentient animal. It is a furry, cute creature that if exposed to the right stimuli will transform into or create gremlins. If exposed to water, it immediately reproduces more of its kind asexually; if it eats food after midnight, it becomes a gremlin, a more reptilian, evil creature. Sunlight will kill a mogwai and other lights will annoy it. Most of the mogwai creatures are mean-spirited and mischievous, with Gizmo, the most famous mogwai, being the exception.

Transliteration: Transliteration in a narrow sense is a mapping from one system of writing into another. Transliteration attempts to be lossless, so that an informed reader should be able to reconstruct the original spelling of unknown transliterated words. To achieve this objective transliteration may define comple...

Mandarin Chinese: Mandarin ( or ), is a category of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and south-western China. When taken as a separate language, as is often done in academic literature, the Mandarin language has more native speakers than any other language. The "standard" in Standard Mandarin r...

Pinyin: Pinyin (??, p?ny?n) literally means "join (together) sounds" (a less literal translation being "phoneticize", "spell" or "transcription") in Chinese and usually refers to H?ny? P?ny?n (????, literal meaning: "Han language pinyin"), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcripti...

Mogwai related Images and Photos (experimental)

Gremlins Mogwai Series 1 Action Figure Case