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See also:
U+602A, 怪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-602A

[U+6029]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+602B]

Translingual

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Stroke order
8 strokes

Han character

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(Kangxi radical 61, +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 心水土 (PEG), four-corner 97014, composition )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 382, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10483
  • Dae Jaweon: page 711, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2288, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+602A

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𢘪

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *kruːds) : semantic + phonetic (OC *kʰuːd).

Etymology

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(OC *kwrêh; *kwêh) seemingly had the same OC rhyme as (OC *kûi); They may be variants (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • koài - literary;
  • kòe/kòa - vernacular.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /kuai⁵¹/
Harbin /kuai⁵³/
Tianjin /kuai⁵³/
Jinan /kuɛ²¹/
Qingdao /kuɛ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /kuai³¹²/
Xi'an /kuai⁴⁴/
Xining /kuɛ²¹³/
Yinchuan /kuɛ¹³/
Lanzhou /kuɛ¹³/
Ürümqi /kuai²¹³/
Wuhan /kuai³⁵/
Chengdu /kuai¹³/
Guiyang /kuai²¹³/
Kunming /kuæ²¹²/
Nanjing /kuae⁴⁴/
/kuae²¹²/
Hefei /kue̞⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /kuai⁴⁵/
Pingyao /kuæ³⁵/
Hohhot /kuɛ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /kua³⁵/
Suzhou /kuɑ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /kue̞⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /ka⁴²/
Hui Shexian /kua³²⁴/
Tunxi /kua⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /kuai⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /kuai⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /kuai⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kuai⁵³/
Taoyuan /kuɑi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kwai³³/
Nanning /kʷai³³/
Hong Kong /kwai³³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /kuai²¹/
/kue²¹/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kuɑi²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /kuɛ³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /kuai²¹³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /kuai³⁵/
/kɔi³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (34)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter kweajH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠuɛiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʷᵚæiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuɐiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwəɨjH/
Li
Rong
/kuɛiH/
Wang
Li
/kwɐiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kwăiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
guài
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gwaai3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
guài
Middle
Chinese
‹ kwɛjH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ʷˁrə-s/
English extraordinary

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 7501
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kruːds/

Definitions

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  1. strange; odd; unusual; peculiar; out of the ordinary; weird; queer
      ―  hěn guài de rén  ―  very weird person
    味道有點味道有点  ―  Wèidào yǒudiǎn guài.  ―  It tastes funny.
  2. amazed; astonished
  3. to blame someone; to put the blame on
      ―  Bié guài tā.  ―  Don't blame him.
  4. (colloquial) quite; rather
  5. (video games) Short for 怪物 (guàiwu, “monster, a non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games”).
      ―  guài  ―  to fight against monsters
  6. (slang, suffix) Short for 怪物 (guàiwu, “monster”). Often used affectionately for people of a trait.
    嚶嚶嘤嘤  ―  yīngyīngguài  ―  a person who likes to act cute and use 嚶嚶
    白嫖  ―  báipiáoguài  ―  a person who supports another idol or creator but doesn't make any expenditure to them

Synonyms

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  • (strange):
  • (amazed):
  • (to blame):
  • (quite):

Compounds

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (かい) (kai)
  • Vietnamese: quái ()

References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Jōyō kanji)

  1. mysterious

Readings

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Compounds

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Kanji in this term
かい
Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (kwɛjH).

Pronunciation

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Affix

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(かい) (kaiくわい (kwai)?

  1. strange; suspicious
  2. mysterious; wonderful
  3. extraordinary; unusual

Noun

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(かい) (kaiくわい (kwai)?

  1. strangeness

References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (MC kweajH).

Pronunciation

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  • (in 怪怪, 怪常, 怪惡, 怪異 and 怪歎):
  • (strange; odd; unusual; peculiar):
    • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [kwe̞(ː)] ~ [kø̞(ː)]
    • Phonetic hangul: [(ː)/(ː)]
      • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 괴이할 (goeihal goe))

  1. hanja form? of (strange; odd; unusual; peculiar)

Compounds

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References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: quái

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