怪 (guài)
strange / to blame / monster
How 怪 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 忄 — heart
- Traditional
- 怪
- Simplified
- 怪 (unchanged)
Components
- 忄 heart
- 又 right hand
- 土 earth
Common words using 怪
- 奇怪 qíguài
- strange; odd; to marvel
- 作怪 zuòguài
- (of a ghost) to make strange things happen; to act up; to act behind the scenes
- 古怪 gǔguài
- eccentric; grotesque; oddly
- 妖怪 yāoguài
- monster; devil
- 怪不得 guàibude
- no wonder!; so that's why!
- 怪人 guàirén
- strange person; eccentric
- 怪物 guàiwu
- monster; freak; eccentric person
- 怪獸 guàishòu
- rare animal; mythical animal
- 怪異 guàiyì
- monstrous; strange; strange phenomenon
- 怪癖 guàipǐ
- eccentricity; peculiarity; strange hobby
- 責怪 zéguài
- to blame; to rebuke
- 難怪 nánguài
- (it's) no wonder (that...); (it's) not surprising (that)
怪 in a sentence
那個人的行為很怪，大家都不敢靠近他。
Nàge rén de xíngwéi hěn guài, dàjiā dōu bùgǎn kàojìn tā.
“That person's behavior is very strange; no one dares to get close to him.”
How common is 怪?
怪 is the 774th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 84.7% of all running text.
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