怪 (guài): meaning and stroke order
怪 (guài) means bewildering, odd, strange, uncanny, devil, monster, to wonder at, to blame, quite, rather.
怪
- Simplified
- 怪
- Traditional
- 怪, 恠
- Pinyin
- guài
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Stroke order of 怪
怪
- guài bewildering; odd
- guài variant of 怪[guai4]
- 8 strokes
- Traditional form: 恠
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Meaning of 怪
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guài
- bewildering
- odd
- strange
- uncanny
- devil
- monster
- to wonder at
- to blame
- quite
- rather
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guài
Traditional 恠
- variant of 怪[guai4]
Radical and structure
- 怪
- Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 8 strokes · 忄 on the left, 圣 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 怪
- 奇怪 qí guài strange; odd
- 怪事 guài shì strange thing; curious occurrence
- 怪物 guài wu monster; freak
- 妖怪 yāo guài monster; devil
- 难怪 nán guài (it's) no wonder (that...); (it's) not surprising (that)
怪 in our stories
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商朝末年，陈塘关的总兵李靖家里出了一件怪事：夫人怀孕三年零六个月，生下来的竟然是一个肉球。
Shāngcháo mònián Chéntángguān de zǒngbīng Lǐ Jìng jiā lǐ chū le yí jiàn guài shì fūren huáiyùn sān nián líng liù gè yuè shēng xiàlai de jìngrán shì yí gè ròuqiú
At the end of the Shang dynasty a strange thing happened in the house of Li Jing, commander of Chentang Pass: his wife was pregnant for three years and six months, and what she gave birth to was a ball of flesh.
From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Stories using 怪
- Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).