怪僻 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

guàipì

eccentric

guài strange

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 圣 represents the sound.

Components

忄 Meaning component

xin, xīn heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

圣 Sound component

shèng sage, holy

Change in sound

怪 and 圣 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Old Chinese.
怪 *kruːds
圣 *kʰuːd

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kweajH	[k]ʷˤrə-s	extraordinary

說文解字

《說文》：“怪，異也。从心，圣聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫Zhengzhang Shangfang
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

pì out-of-the-way

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 辟 represents the sound.

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

辟 Sound component

pì, bì law

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	phjiek	pʰek	perverse
Zhengzhang		pʰeɡ
		pʰeːɡ
Unicode	pek
	piɛk

說文解字

避也。从人辟聲。《詩》曰：“宛如左僻。”一曰从㫄牽也。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

怪 guài strange

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僻 pì out-of-the-way

Components

Character Evolution

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guài strange

pì out-of-the-way