"乖" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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Strokes 1
Composition
Strokes 8
Structure
Decomp. 丿十丬匕
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Prononciation
Mandarin guāi
Entry Methods
Pinyin guai1
Kanji /
Cangjie
HJLP
竹十中心
Sijiao 2011.1
Wubi TFUX
CNS 11643 1-4B65
Encodages (hexa)
Unicode U+4E56
GB2312 B9D4
BIG5 A8C4
HSK
Level 5
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 guāi (of a child) obedient, well-behaved / clever / shrewd / alert / perverse / contrary to reason / irregular / abnormal
Results beginning with 乖
 guāi guai goodness gracious! / oh my lord!
 guāi qiǎo clever (child) / smart / lovable / cute
 guāi zhāng recalcitrant / unreasonable / peevish
 guāi lì perverse (behavior) / disagreeable (character)
 guāi pì peculiar / eccentric
 guāi jué perceptive / alert / clever / shrewd
 guāi guāi (of a child) well-behaved / obediently / (term of endearment for a child) darling / sweetie
 guāi lí to part / to separate / to deviate
 guāi miù ridiculous / abnormal
 guāi shùn obedient (colloquial)
 guāi wǔ stubborn / contrary / disobedient
 guāi wǔ stubborn / contrary / disobedient
 guāi guāi pái good little boy (or girl)
Approximate Results for 乖
 mài guāi to show off one's cleverness / (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by
 xué guāi to learn from experience (coll.)
 zuǐ guāi (coll.) to speak in a clever and lovable way
 shí guāi mìng jiǎn bad times, adverse fate (idiom)
 sā jiāo mài guāi to behave ingratiatingly
 tǎo hǎo mài guāi to curry favor by showing obeisance (idiom)
便 dé pián yi mài guāi to have benefited from sth but pretend otherwise / to claim to be hard done by, even though one has benefited
 shàng yī cì dàng , xué yī cì guāi to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom) / once bitten, twice shy
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