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怪

怪

See also: 恠

Translingual

Han character

怪 (radical 61 心+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 心水土 (PEG), four-corner 97014, composition ⿰忄圣)

Synonyms

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 怪

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (圣) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
怪 *kruːds
恠 *krɯːs
圣 *kʰuːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kruːds) : semantic 忄 + phonetic 圣 ‎(OC *kʰuːd); the sound "guai".

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 怪
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 (Min Nan) /kuai²¹/
/kue²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kuɑi²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kuɛ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kuai²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kuai³⁵/
/kɔi³⁵/
Rime
Character 怪
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 皆 (34)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古壞切
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 怪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guài
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwɛjH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʷˤrə-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 怪
Reading # 1/1
No. 7501
Phonetic
component		 圣
Rime
group		 隊
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 怪
Old
Chinese		 /*kruːds/

Definitions

怪

  1. strange, unusual, peculiar, out-of-the-ordinary
  2. to blame someone
  3. quite, rather

Japanese

Kanji

怪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. suspicious

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
怪
かい
Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 怪 ‎(kwɛjH).

Pronunciation

Noun

怪 ‎(hiragana かい, romaji kai, historical hiragana くわい)

  1. strangeness

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

怪 • ‎(goe) (hangeul 괴, McCune-Reischauer koe, Yale koy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

怪 (quái, quảy, quấy, quế)

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