Chinese symbol for “outlandish”
怪模怪样
guài mú guài yàng
Traditional: 怪模怪樣
outlandish; strange-looking; grotesque
The closest CC-CEDICT match for outlandish is 怪模怪样 (guài mú guài yàng), defined as: outlandish; strange-looking; grotesque.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “outlandish”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 怪模怪样.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奇怪 | qí guài | strange; odd |
| 怪物 | guài wu | monster; freak |
| 难怪 (難怪) | nán guài | (it's) no wonder (that...); (it's) not surprising (that) |
| 怪异 (怪異) | guài yì | monstrous; strange |
| 古怪 | gǔ guài | strange; weird |
| 怪兽 (怪獸) | guài shòu | rare animal; mythical animal |
| 模式 | mó shì | mode; pattern; model |
| 规模 (規模) | guī mó | scale; scope; extent |
| 这样 (這樣) | zhè yàng | this way; like this; so; (before a noun) this kind of; such |
See also: Japanese symbol for “outlandish”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.