乖戾
guāi​lì

perverse

乖 guāi rebel

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkwɛjkʷˤrəjoppose; disorder
Zhengzhangkʷrɯːl
Unicodeguæi

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

戾 lì bend, violate, transgress

Depicts a dog (犬) bending its body to get out from under a door (户).

Components

户
户 Iconic component
hù, hu door
犬
犬 Iconic component
quǎn dog

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1 of 3 verified)

唳捩淚

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartlejH[r]ˤe[t]-s transgress

說文解字

《說文》：“戾，曲也。从犬出戶下。戾者，身曲戾也。”

Sources

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