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Chinese symbol for “rebellious”

悖
bèi
to go against; to be contrary to; perverse; rebellious

The closest CC-CEDICT match for rebellious is 悖 (bèi), defined as: to go against; to be contrary to; perverse; rebellious.

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Characters and stroke order

悖 bèi
contradictory; counter to
radical 61 ⼼ · 10 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 悖.

WordPinyinMeaning
悖论 (悖論)bèi lùnparadox (logic)
相悖xiāng bèicontrary; opposite; to run counter to
有悖于 (有悖於)yǒu bèi yúto go against
悖逆bèi nìcontrary
并行不悖 (並行不悖)bìng xíng bù bèito run in parallel without hindrance; not mutually exclusive
悖谬 (悖謬)bèi miùabsurd; irrational

See also: Japanese symbol for “rebellious”.

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.