奇怪
qí guài 2–4
strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled
- Characters
- 2
- 奇 · 怪
- Syllables
- 2
- qí guài
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,655
Part of speech: v,a
Character by character
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
很奇怪，不是么？
Hěn qí guài bù shì me
It's weird isn't it?
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 奇怪. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 怪guàiHSK 4
bewildering; odd; strange; uncanny; devil; monster; to wonder at; to blame; quite; rather
- 神奇shén qíHSK 5
magical; mystical; miraculous
- 奇迹qí jìHSK 7
miracle; miraculous; wonder; marvel
- 好奇hào qíHSK 3
inquisitive; curious; inquisitiveness; curiosity
- 传奇chuán qíHSK 7
legendary; fantasy saga; romance; short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
- 怪物guài wuHSK 7
monster; freak; eccentric person
- 难怪nán guàiHSK 7
(it's) no wonder (that...); (it's) not surprising (that)
- 古怪gǔ guàiHSK 7
strange; weird; eccentric; bizarre
- 奇妙qí miàoHSK 6
fantastic; wonderful
- 怪不得guài bu deHSK 7
no wonder!; so that's why!
- 怪异guài yìHSK 7
monstrous; strange; strange phenomenon
- 惊奇jīng qíHSK 7
to be amazed; to be surprised; to wonder
- 奇特qí tèHSK 7
peculiar; unusual; queer
- 责怪zé guàiHSK 7
to blame; to rebuke
- 好奇心hào qí xīnHSK 7
interest in sth; curiosity; inquisitive
- 妖怪yāo guàiHSK 7
monster; devil
- 离奇lí qíHSK 7
odd; bizarre
- 新奇xīn qíHSK 7
novel; new; exotic
- 大惊小怪dà jīng xiǎo guàiHSK 7
to make a fuss about nothing (idiom)
- 稀奇xī qíHSK 7
rare; strange
- 奇花异草qí huā yì cǎoHSK 7
very rarely seen, unusual (idiom)