乖
guāi HSK7

rebel

乖 guāi
obedient adjective
(of a child) obedient or well-behaved

这孩子平时很乖，从不让父母操心。

zhè hái​zi píng​shí hěn guāi, cóng bù ràng fù​mǔ cāo​xīn.

This child is usually very well-behaved and never worries his parents.

perverse adjective
perverse, contrary to reason, irregular, or abnormal

他的脾气特别乖，总喜欢跟人唱反调。

tā de pí​qi tè​bié guāi, zǒng xǐ​huan gēn rén chàng​fǎn​diào.

He has a very perverse temper and always likes to contradict people.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,470th most common 19.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,387th most common 51.8 per million appears in 18% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
30.5 per million appears in 11% of films
Written text
21.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+4E56

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