奇怪 (qí guài): meaning and stroke order
奇怪 (qí guài) means strange, odd, to marvel, to be baffled.
奇怪
- Simplified
- 奇怪
- Traditional
- 奇怪 (same form)
- Pinyin
- qí guài
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Stroke order of 奇怪
奇
- jī odd (number)
- qí strange; odd
- 8 strokes
Stroke by stroke
怪
- guài bewildering; odd
- guài variant of 怪[guai4]
- 8 strokes
- Traditional form: 恠
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Meaning of 奇怪
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qí guài
- strange
- odd
- to marvel
- to be baffled
Radicals of the characters
- 奇
- Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 8 strokes · 大 on top, 可 below
- 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.
奇怪 in our stories
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露西看着菜单，看到了一个奇怪的名字：“夫妻肺片”。
Lùxī kàn zhe càidān kàndào le yí gè qíguài de míngzi fūqī fèipiàn
Looking at the menu, Lucy sees a strange name: "husband and wife lung slices".
From the story "Husband and wife lung slices" HSK 3
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从那以后，奇怪的事发生了：每天他干完活回家，桌子上都有做好的热饭。
cóng nà yǐhòu qíguài de shì fāshēng le měitiān tā gànwán huó huí jiā zhuōzi shàng dōu yǒu zuò hǎo de rè fàn
From then on something strange happened: every day when he came home from work, a hot meal was waiting on the table.
From the story The river-snail girl HSK 4
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奇怪的是，这些书在电脑里都没有借书记录。
qíguài de shì zhèxiē shū zài diànnǎo lǐ dōu méiyǒu jièshū jìlù
The strange thing was that none of these books had a loan record on the computer.
From the story Flowers in the book return HSK 5
Stories using 奇怪
- "Husband and wife lung slices" HSK 3
- The river-snail girl HSK 4
- Flowers in the book return HSK 5
- The dry floor HSK 6
- The song in the thunderstorm HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- Jingwei fills 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).