guāi
rebel
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
guāi
rebel; crafty, shrewd; (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kʷˤrəj | kweaj | guāi | oppose; disorder |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 17.9241% of movies
1387th most common character in movies
2470th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+4E56 |
Shuowen | “，戾也。从而兆；兆，古文別。” |
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