Language/Mandarin-chinese/Vocabulary/怪-guài-blame;-strange

怪 guài blame; strange - Mandarin Chinese

Definition

Radical is 心 xīn “heart”, which indicates that an emotion is involved. When at the left side of a character, this radical is referred to colloquially as 心字旁 xīnzìpáng “side made up of the character 心” and is written as 忄. Distinguish 怪 from 惯 (慣) guàn .

Examples

• 难怪 (難怪) nánguài no wonder [MA]
• 怪不得 guàibudé no wonder that [MA] (得 is here pronounced dé, not dĕi or de)
• 怪 guài blame [V]; be strange [SV]

Sources

Book: Intermediate Written Chinese by Cornelius C. Kubler

Other Lessons

• 功 gōng merit; achievement
• 情 qíng sentiment; situation, condition
• 算 suàn reckon, calculate
• 整 zhĕng exact (of clock times)
• 节(節) jié restrict, control; economize
• 类(類) lèi kind, type
• 任 rèn duty; bear (a burden), Rén (as a surname)
• 飞(飛) fēi fly
• 结(結) jié tie; knot
• 观(觀) guān look at
• 食 shí eat
• 山 shān
• 队(隊) duì team, group
• Months of the Year
• 球 qiú ball, globe