怪

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See also: 恠

Translingual[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Han character[edit]

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

  1. adj. - strange, unusual, peculiar
  2. v. - to blame

Synonyms[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

怪 (Jyutping gwaai3, Yale gwaai3)

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
怪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

Mandarin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

怪 (Pinyin guài (guai4), Wade-Giles kuai4)

Middle Chinese[edit]

Han character[edit]

怪 (*guæ̀i)

Vietnamese[edit]

Quái trong quái vật, quái thú, quái quỷ

Han character[edit]

怪 (quái, quảy, quấy, quế)

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