guāi

rebel

Evolution

乖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
乖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

guāi

rebel; crafty, shrewd; (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal

Most common words with 乖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

clever

乖巧

smart

乖张

recalcitrant

乖戾

perverse (behavior)

乖僻

peculiar

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʷˤrəj

kweaj

guāi

oppose; disorder


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 17.9241% of movies

1387th most common character in movies

2470th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+4E56

Shuowen

“,戾也。从而兆;兆,古文別。”


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