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Chinese symbol for “peculiarity”

怪癖
guài pǐ
eccentricity; peculiarity; strange hobby

The closest CC-CEDICT match for peculiarity is 怪癖 (guài pǐ), defined as: eccentricity; peculiarity; strange hobby.

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Characters and stroke order

怪 guài
unusual, strange, peculiar
radical 61 ⼼ · 8 strokes
癖 pǐ
craving, addiction; habit, hobby; indigestion
radical 104 ⽧ · 18 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 怪癖.

WordPinyinMeaning
奇怪qí guàistrange; odd
怪物guài wumonster; freak
难怪 (難怪)nán guài(it's) no wonder (that...); (it's) not surprising (that)
怪异 (怪異)guài yìmonstrous; strange
古怪gǔ guàistrange; weird
怪兽 (怪獸)guài shòurare animal; mythical animal
癖好pǐ hàoone's passion; one's obsession
洁癖 (潔癖)jié pǐmysophobia; obsession with cleanliness

See also: Japanese symbol for “peculiarity”.

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.