# 奇怪
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): qíguài
    (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ ㄍㄨㄞˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): kei$^4$ gwaai$^3$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): khì-koai
    (Meixian, Guangdong): ki$^2$ guai$^4$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): kî-koài
    (Teochew, Peng'im): ki$^5$ guai$^3$
* Wu (Northern, Wugniu): $^6$ji-kua$_5$ / $^6$ji$_2$-kua$_5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: qíguài
*** Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ ㄍㄨㄞˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cíguài
*** Wade–Giles: chʻi$^2$-kuai$^4$
*** Yale: chí-gwài
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyiguay
*** Palladius: цигуай (ciguaj)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕʰi³⁵ ku̯aɪ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: kei$^4$ gwaai$^3$
*** Yale: kèih gwaai
*** Cantonese Pinyin: kei$^4$ gwaai$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: kéi$^4$ guai$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰei̯²¹ kʷaːi̯³³/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khì-koai
*** Hakka Romanization System: ki$^ˇ$ guai
*** Hagfa Pinyim: ki$^2$ guai$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /kʰi¹¹ ku̯ai̯⁵⁵/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: ki$^2$ guai$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /kʰi¹¹ kuaɪ⁵³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî-koài
*** Tâi-lô: kî-kuài
*** Phofsit Daibuun: ki'koaix
*** IPA (Xiamen): /ki²⁴⁻²² kuai²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ki²⁴⁻²² kuai⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³⁻²² kuai²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /ki²⁴⁻¹¹ kuai¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki²³⁻³³ kuai²¹/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: ki$^5$ guai$^3$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khî kuài
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰi⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kuai²¹³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$ji-kua$_5$
*** MiniDict: ji$^去$ kua$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$jji-kua$_2$
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /d͡ʑi²² kua⁴⁴/
** (Northern: Suzhou)
*** Wugniu: $^6$ji$_2$-kua$_5$
*** MiniDict: ji$^平$ kua$^去$
*** Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /d͡ʑi²³ kuɑ¹¹/

### Adjective

奇怪
* odd; strange; surprising; unexpected
    From: 1924, Lu Xun, “Autumn Night”, in Wild Grass (English translation by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang)
    Zhè shàngmiàn de yè de tiānkōng, qíguài ér gāo, wǒ shēngpíng méiyǒu jiànguo zhèyàng qíguài ér gāo de tiānkōng. [Pinyin]
    The night sky above them is strange and high. I have never seen such a strange, high sky.

#### Synonyms

* 刁鑽 / 刁钻 (diāozuān) (literary)
* 古怪 (gǔguài)
* 各樣 / 各样 (gèyàng) (Eastern Min; Southern Min)
* 各鱉 / 各鳖 (Xiamen Hokkien)
* 奇巧 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
* 奇幻 (qíhuàn)
* 奇異 / 奇异 (qíyì)
* 巧奇 (Xiamen Hokkien)
* 巧怪 (Xiamen Hokkien)
* 怪 (guài)
* 怪僻 (guàipì) (literary)
* 怪奇 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
* 怪死 (Hokkien)
* 怪異 / 怪异 (guàiyì)
* 日怪 (reh$^4$ guai$^3$) (Jin)
* 有空 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
* 稀奇 (xīqí)
* 詭異 / 诡异 (guǐyì)
* 趣怪 (Hakka)
* 蹊蹺 / 蹊跷 (qīqiāo)
* 離奇 / 离奇 (líqí)
* 龜怪 / 龟怪 (Hokkien)

#### Derived terms

* 奇奇怪怪 (qíqíguàiguài)

### Verb

奇怪
* to find odd, strange, surprising or unexpected; to be baffled about

### Noun

奇怪
* (literary) unusual person or thing

## Japanese
### Etymology 1

Kanji in this term :
| 奇 | 怪 |
| き Grade: S | かい Grade: S |
| on'yomi ||

#### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) きかい [kìkáí] (Heiban – [0])
* (Tokyo) きかい [kìkáꜜì] (Nakadaka – [2])
* IPA: [kʲika̠i]

#### Adjective

奇(き)怪(かい) • (kikai) -na (adnominal 奇(き)怪(かい)な (kikai na), adverbial 奇(き)怪(かい)に (kikai ni))
* strange, weird
    奇(き)怪(かい)な姿(すがた)
       kikai na sugata
       strange appearance

#### Noun

奇(き)怪(かい) • (kikai)
* weirdness, strangeness
** 1948, Osamu Dazai, Ningen Shikkaku [No Longer Human]‎:
    もう一(いち)葉(よう)の写(しゃ)真(しん)は、最(もっと)も奇(き)怪(かい)なものである。
       Mō ichiyō no shashin wa, mottomo kikai na mono de aru.
       The remaining photograph is the most monstrous of all.

### Etymology 2

Kanji in this term :
| 奇 | 怪 |
| き > きっ Grade: S | かい Grade: S |
| on'yomi ||
* Alternative spelling
* 奇っ怪
Attested from the 17th century.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kʲik̚ka̠i]

#### Adjective

奇(きっ)怪(かい) • (kikkai) -na (adnominal 奇(きっ)怪(かい)な (kikkai na), adverbial 奇(きっ)怪(かい)に (kikkai ni))
* unimaginable, extremely strange, very weird
* (regional, Yamaguchi prefecture) synonym of 奇怪 (kikai, “strange”)

### References

* 1 2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
* ↑ Donald Keene, transl. (1958), No Longer Human, page 15
* ↑ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

## Korean

Hanja in this term :
| 奇 | 怪 |

### Noun

奇怪 • (gigoe) (hangeul 기괴)
* hanja form of 기괴

## Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term :
| 奇 | 怪 |

### Adjective

奇怪
* chữ Hán form of kỳ quái (“weird; bizarre”).