怪
guài HSK3

strange

怪 guài
blame verb
to blame or find fault with

这件事不能怪他。

zhè jiàn shì bù néng guài tā.

You can't blame him for this.

strange adjective
strange, odd, bewildering, or uncanny

这种声音听起来很怪。

zhè zhǒng shēng​yīn tīng qi​lai hěn guài.

This sound sounds very strange.

quite adverb
quite, rather, or very

这孩子怪听话的。

zhèi hái​zi guài tīng​huà de.

This child is quite obedient.

monster verb
a monster, devil, or supernatural being

他在游戏中忙着打怪。

tā zài yóu​xì zhōng máng zhe dǎ​guài.

He is busy grinding monsters in the game.

wonder at modal particle
to wonder at or feel surprised by something

这种事见多了也就不足为怪了。

zhèi zhǒng shì jiàn duō le yě jiù bù​zú wéi guài le.

Once you've seen enough of this kind of thing, it's no longer surprising.

Frequency
Character
Written text
775th most common 240.8 per million
Movie subtitles
404th most common 369.9 per million appears in 81% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
140.3 per million appears in 38% of films
Written text
65.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+602A

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)