| 狽 | |||
| a legendary animal with short forelegs which rode a wolf | |||
| Radical | 犬犭 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 7 | Total Strokes | 10 |
| Mandarin reading | beì | Cantonese reading | bui3 |
| Japanese on reading | hai bai | Japanese kun reading | |
| Korean reading | phay | Vietnamese reading | |
| Simplified Variant(s) | 狈 | ||
| 狽 | [ beì ] a legendary wolf, distressed, wretched |
| ⇒ 狼狽 | [ láng beì ] in a difficult situation, to cut a sorry figure, scoundrel! (derog.) |
| ⇒ 狼狽不堪 | [ láng beì bù kān ] battered and exhausted, stuck in a dilemma |
| ⇒ 狼狽為奸 | [ láng beì weí jiān ] villains collude together (idiom); to work hand in glove with sb (to nefarious ends) |