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Mythic Mandarin

怪物 (guài wu): meaning and stroke order

怪物 (guài wu) means monster, freak, eccentric person.

怪物

Simplified
怪物
Traditional
怪物 (same form)
Pinyin
guài wu

Stroke order of 怪物

怪

  • guài bewildering; odd
  • guài variant of 怪[guai4]
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 恠

Stroke by stroke

物

  • wù (bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 怪物

  1. guài wu
    • monster
    • freak
    • eccentric person

Radicals of the characters

怪
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 8 strokes · 忄 on the left, 圣 on the right
物
Radical 牛 (Kangxi radical 93) · 8 strokes · 牜 on the left, 勿 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.

怪物 in our stories

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  • 以前，有一个怪物，叫“年”。

    yǐqián yǒu yí gè guàiwu jiào Nián

    Long ago there was a monster called Nian.

    From the story The story of Nian HSK 1

Stories using 怪物

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).