怪

See also: 恠

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 忄 + phonetic 圣; the sound "guai".

Han character

怪 (radical 61 心+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 心水土 (PEG), four-corner 9701₄, composition ⿰忄圣)

Synonyms

• 異, 奇, 妖

References

• KangXi: page 382, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10483
• Dae Jaweon: page 711, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2288, character 12
• Unihan data for U+602A

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		怪

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guài (guai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwaai³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): koai
• Min Nan (POJ): koè / kòai
• Wu (WT Romanisation): kua (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: guài
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄞˋ
    • Wade-Giles: kuai⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guay
    • IPA ^(key): /ku̯aɪ̯⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwaai³
    • Yale: gwaai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwaai³
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷɑːi̯³³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: koai
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ku̯ai̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koè / kòai
    • Tâi-lô: koè / kuài
    • IPA (Taipei): /kue¹¹/, /kuai¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kue²¹/, /kuai²¹/
  • Note: koài is literary.
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: kua (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /kɯᴀ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (怪, reconstructed)
Character (怪), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 皆 Division: II			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 古壞切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɣuɛiH/	/kwăiH/	/kuɛiH/	/kʷɯæiH/	/kwəɨjH/	/kwɐiH/	/kuɐiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (怪, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
怪								guài								‹ kwɛjH ›								/*[k]ʷˤrə-s/								extraordinary
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
怪					7501					圣					隊					2					怪					/*kruːds/

Definitions

1. strange, unusual, peculiar
2. to blame
3. quite, rather

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Japanese

Kanji

怪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: け (ke) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: かい (kai)
• Kun: あやしい (怪しい, ayashii), あやしむ (怪しむ, ayashimu)

Compounds

• 怪我 (けが, kega, “injury, wound”)

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Korean

Hanja

怪 (goe) (hangeul 괴, McCune-Reischauer koe, Yale koy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

怪 (quái, quảy, quấy, quế)

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