(guài) - strange; to blame in Mandarin
guàiTraditional: 怪
Translation
strange; to blame
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the 忄 'heart' radical signals a feeling or mental state, and the right-hand element supplies the sound. The character means 'strange', and by extension 'to blame'.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 忄 (heart radical) + phonetic element
Stroke order
怪
Examples
。
This is really strange.
。
Do not blame him.
。
He is a bit strange.
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The weather today is a bit strange.
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Do not blame me for not warning you.
怪 (guài) means strange or to blame.
Where this fits
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 怪.
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