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奇怪

qí guài

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

奇怪 (qí guài) means "strange". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 奇怪 means

1. strange
2. odd
3. to marvel
4. to be baffled

The characters in 奇怪

• 奇qístrange; odd; weird
• 怪guàiodd; strange; uncanny; (bound form) monster; supernatural being; to find strange…

Example sentences

• 奇怪。
  That's strange.
• 真奇怪。
  How odd!
• 真奇怪！
  How curious!
• 有点奇怪。
  It's sort of strange.
• 他不奇怪。
  He isn't weird.
• 朝鲜很奇怪。
  Cháoxiǎn hěn qíguài.
  North Korea is weird.

Words containing 奇怪

• 说也奇怪shuō yě qí guàistrangely enough; oddly enough; strange to say

Where 奇怪 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Sequence, Similarity & Remaining Words (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read qí guài correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.