 | 乖 | ||
| rebel; crafty, shrewd | |||
| Radical | 丿乀乁乁 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 7 | Total Strokes | 8 |
| Mandarin reading |
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Cantonese reading | gwaai1 |
| Japanese on reading | kai | Japanese kun reading | modoru somuku |
| Korean reading | koy | Vietnamese reading | quai |
| 乖张 | [ zhāng ] recalcitrant, unreasonable, peevish |
| 乖觉 | [ jué ] perceptive, alert, clever, shrewd |
| 乖谬 | [ miù ] ridiculous, abnormal |
| 乖顺 | [ shùn ] obedient (colloquial) |
| ⇒ 上一次当，学一次乖 | [ shàng yī cì dàng xué yī cì ] to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom), once bitten, twice shy |
| ⇒ 学乖 | [ xué ] to learn from experience (coll.) |
| ⇒ 得便宜卖乖 | [ dé pián yi maì ] to have benefited from sth but pretend otherwise, to claim to be hard done by, even though one has benefited |
| ⇒ 时乖命蹇 | [ shí mìng jiǎn ] bad times, adverse fate (idiom) |
| ⇒ 讨好卖乖 | [ taǒ haǒ maì ] to curry favor by showing obeisance (idiom) |