乖 guāi

1. guāi adjective obedient; well-behaved
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '乖'; Guoyu '乖' adj 2)
2. guāi noun cleverness
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '乖'; Guoyu '乖' n; Unihan '乖')
3. guāi verb to separate
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   
4. guāi verb to rebel
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   
5. guāi adjective strange
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '乖'; Guoyu '乖' adj 1)
6. guāi adjective sinister; vicious; wicked; evil
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In this sense 乖 is the same as 邪恶 (Kroll 2015 '乖' 1, p. 142)

Contained in

• 乖谬(乖謬) ridiculous; abnormal
• 讨好卖乖(討好賣乖) to curry favor by showing obeisance
• 乖巧 clever; smart; lovable; cute
• 乖僻 peculiar; eccentric
• 乖人 a clever person
• 嘴乖 to speak in a clever and lovable way
• 乖觉(乖覺) perceptive; alert; clever; shrewd
• 乖乖 (of a child) well-behaved; obediently; (term of endearment for a child) darling; sweetie ; goodness gracious!
• 乖忤 stubborn; contrary; disobedient
• 乖张(乖張) recalcitrant; unreasonable; peevish
• 乖戾 perverse (behavior); disagreeable (character)
• 时乖命蹇(時乖命蹇) bad times, adverse fate
• 上一次当，学一次乖(上一次當，學一次乖) to take sth as a lesson for next time; once bitten, twice shy
• 得便宜卖乖(得便宜賣乖) to have benefited from something but pretend otherwise
• 乖乖牌 good little boy (or girl)
• 乖违(乖違) to depart from; to deviate from; to turn away
• 乖离(乖離) to part; to separate; to deviate
• 乖舛 not uniform; different ; an error ; unlucky
• 学乖(學乖) to learn from experience
• 乖迕 stubborn; contrary; disobedient
• 乖顺(乖順) obedient

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷二十六 志第六: 禮儀六 Volume 26 Treatises 6: Rites 6 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 13
• 卷十三 志第三 歷下 Volume 13 Treatises 3: Calendar 2 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 12
• 卷二十一 志第一: 禮儀一 Volume 21 Treatises 1: Rites 1 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 11
• 卷21上 獻文六王上 Volume 21a: Emperor Xianwen's Six Princes 1 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 11
• 卷九 志第一 禮上 Volume 9 Treatises 1: Rituals 1 Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 8
• 卷111 刑罰志七 Volume 111 Treatise 7: Criminal Punishment Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 8
• 卷一百三十九 列傳第八十九: 陸贄 Volume 139 Biographies 89: Lu Zhi Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 7
• 卷17　志第12 律曆中 Volume 17 Treatises 12: Measures and the Calendar 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 7
• 卷五十六 Scroll 56 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
• 卷二十六 Scroll 26 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7

Collocations

• 乖乱 (乖亂) 諸侯乖亂 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 11
• 君臣乖 (君臣乖) 君臣乖心 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷六　覽冥訓 Chapter 6: Observing the Obscure — count: 6
• 乖异 (乖異) 乖異 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《表‧三代世表》 Tables - Genealogical Table of the Three Ages — count: 6
• 乖悖 (乖悖) 言種類不乖悖 — Xunzi 荀子, 非相篇第五 Chapter 5: Do not Judge by Appearances — count: 5
• 政乖 (政乖) 其政乖 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 5
• 匈奴乖 (匈奴乖) 遭值匈奴乖亂 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八 宣帝紀 Volume 8: Annals of Emperor Xuan — count: 4
• 大义乖 (大義乖) 七十子喪而大義乖 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷三十 兿文志 Volume 30: Treatise on Literature — count: 3
• 实乖 (實乖) 實乖正道 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十六 郭陳列傳 Volume 46: Biographies of Guo, Chen — count: 3
• 上下乖 (上下乖) 上下乖 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷九　主術訓 Chapter 9: The Sovereign's Methods — count: 2
• 徒乖 (徒乖) 豈徒乖為君子之道哉 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十三 朱樂何列傳 Volume 43: Biographies of Zhu, Yue, He — count: 2