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怪

guài

HSK 3 Character

What 怪 means

1. odd; strange; uncanny
2. bound formmonster; supernatural being
3. to find strange; to regard as odd
4. to blame
5. colloquialsomewhat; rather

Other readings

怪 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• guàivariant of {怪|guài}

Example sentences

• 奇怪。
  That's strange.
• 别怪她。
  Don't blame it on her.
• 真奇怪。
  How odd!
• 多怪啊！
  How curious!
• 真奇怪！
  How curious!
• 我不怪你。
  I don't blame you.

Words starting with 怪

• 怪不得guài bu deno wonder!; so that's why!
• 怪物guài wumonster; freak; eccentric person
• 怪异guài yìmonstrous; strange; strange phenomenon
• 怪事guài shìstrange thing; curious occurrence
• 怪兽guài shòurare animal; mythical animal; monster
• 怪人guài rénstrange person; eccentric
• 怪癖guài pǐeccentricity; peculiarity; strange hobby
• 怪圈guài quānvicious circle; (abnormal) phenomenon
• 怪罪guài zuìto blame
• 怪味guài wèistrange odor
• 怪诞guài dànfreak; weird
• 怪胎guài tāifreak; abnormal embryo; fetus with deformity
• 怪杰guài jiémonstre sacré (i.e. artist famous for being deliberately preposterous)
• 怪咖guài kā(Taiwan; slang) oddball; eccentric person; weirdo
• 怪手guài shǒu(Taiwan) excavator; backhoe
• 怪才guài cáieccentric genius; quirky genius
• 怪样guài yàngodd expression; funny looks; queer face
• 怪气guài qìweird (temperament)
• 怪相guài xiànggrotesque visage; grimace
• 怪秘guài mìstrange; mystic
• 怪话guài huàridiculous talk; preposterous remark
• 怪象guài xiàngstrange phenomenon
• 怪道guài dàono wonder!
• 怪念头guài niàn toueccentric notion; strange whim

Words containing 怪

• 奇怪qí guàistrange; odd; to marvel
• 难怪nán guài(it's) no wonder (that...); (it's) not surprising (that)
• 古怪gǔ guàistrange; weird; eccentric
• 责怪zé guàito blame; to rebuke
• 妖怪yāo guàimonster; devil
• 大惊小怪dà jīng xiǎo guàito make a fuss about nothing (idiom)
• 作怪zuò guài(of a ghost) to make strange things happen; to act up; to act behind the scenes
• 稀奇古怪xī qí gǔ guài(idiom) crazy; bizarre; weird; fantastic; strange
• 见怪不怪jiàn guài bù guài(idiom) to have seen sth so often that it doesn't seem strange at all…
• 千奇百怪qiān qí bǎi guàifantastic oddities of every description (idiom)
• 鬼怪guǐ guàihobgoblin; bogey; phantom
• 奇形怪状qí xíng guài zhuàngfantastic oddities of every description (idiom); grotesquely shaped
• 嗔怪chēn guàito blame; to rebuke
• 阴阳怪气yīn yáng guài qìeccentric; peculiar; mystifying
• 光怪陆离guāng guài lù límonstrous and multicolored; grotesque and variegated
• 见怪jiàn guàito mind; to take offense
• 错怪cuò guàito blame sb wrongly
• 无怪乎wú guài hūno wonder (that...)
• 丑八怪chǒu bā guàiugly person
• 休怪xiū guàidon't blame (sb)
• 可怪kě guàistrange; curious; surprising
• 志怪zhì guàito write about mysterious or supernatural things
• 才怪cái guàiit'd be a wonder if... (following a verb phrase that is usually negative)
• 日怪rì guài(dialect) strange

Characters that look like 怪

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 择zéto select; to choose; to pick over
• 修xiūto decorate; to embellish; to repair
• 恢huī(bound form) vast; expansive; (bound form) to restore; to recover
• 炼liànto refine; to smelt
• 挤jǐto crowd in; to cram in; to force others aside
• 俚lǐrustic; vulgar; unrefined

Sounds the same

Read guài, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 夬decisive
• 𤶊(literary) serious illness; (Cantonese) variant of 攰