乖 — Chinese character
乖
guāi
obedient, well-behaved; clever
- Pinyin
- guāi
- Radical
- 4 ⼃ (Slash)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 千 北
- Japanese
- 乖 as a kanji
Common words with 乖
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乖乖 | guāi guāi | (of a child) well-behaved; obediently |
| 乖乖 | guāi guai | goodness gracious!; oh my lord! |
| 乖巧 | guāi qiǎo | clever (child); smart |
| 乖乖女 | guāi guāi nǚ | well-behaved girl; good girl |
| 乖戾 | guāi lì | perverse (behavior); disagreeable (character) |
| 乖张 (乖張) | guāi zhāng | recalcitrant; unreasonable |
| 乖僻 | guāi pì | peculiar; eccentric |
| 卖乖 (賣乖) | mài guāi | to show off one's cleverness; (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by |
| 乖离 | guāi lí | to part; to separate |
| 乖谬 (乖謬) | guāi miù | ridiculous; abnormal |
| 乖顺 (乖順) | guāi shùn | obedient (colloquial) |
| 学乖 (學乖) | xué guāi | to learn one's lesson the hard way |
English words written with 乖
乖 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Art of War 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.