arrogant

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

person

居 sound component

  Sound component

  

live

Evolution

倨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
倨 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
倨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

arrogant, haughty, rude; haughty; arrogant

Most common words with 倨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

haughty

倨傲

arrogant

前倨后恭

to switch from arrogance to deference (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5167th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+5028

Shuowen

“倨,不遜也。从人,居聲。”


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