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Chinese symbol for “wacky”

搞怪
gǎo guài
to do sth wacky; wacky; wacky behavior

The closest CC-CEDICT match for wacky is 搞怪 (gǎo guài), defined as: to do sth wacky; wacky; wacky behavior.

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Characters and stroke order

搞 gǎo
to do, to fix, to make, to settle
radical 64 ⼿ · 13 strokes
怪 guài
unusual, strange, peculiar
radical 61 ⼼ · 8 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 搞怪.

WordPinyinMeaning
搞笑gǎo xiàoto get people to laugh; funny
搞定gǎo dìngto fix; to settle
搞好gǎo hǎoto do well at; to do a good job
搞错 (搞錯)gǎo cuòmistake; to make a mistake
恶搞 (惡搞)è gǎospoof (web-based genre in PRC, acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, text
搞不懂gǎo bu dǒngunable to make sense of (sth)
奇怪qí guàistrange; odd
怪物guài wumonster; freak

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.