jié'ào

stubborn and defiant

  • created sense approved 桀骜/桀驁 · jié'ào · stubborn and defiant — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    桀骜 / 桀驁

    jié'ào

    stubborn and defiant

    tyrannical and haughty; fierce and untamable; intractable

    桀 (literal) → 桀 · jié · cruel 骜 (literal) → 骜/驁 · ào · unruly

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

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