guài

strange

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
忄 meaning component

  Meaning component

xinxīn

  

heart

is a component form of .

圣 sound component

  Sound component

shèng

  

sage, holy

Evolution

怪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

guài

strange, unusual, peculiar; bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather

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guài

variant of [guài]

Most common words with 怪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

odd

奇怪

strange

怪物

monster

难怪

(it's) no wonder (that...)

古怪

eccentric

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[k]ʷˤrə-s

kweajH

guài

extraordinary

*kruːds

kˠuɛiH

guài

[Zhengzhang] extraordinary


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 80.7144% of movies

404th most common character in movies

775th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+602A

Shuowen

“怪,異也。从心,圣聲。”


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