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(of a ghost) to make strange things happen / to act up / to act behind the scenes / to make mischief / odd / to misbehave (euphemism for having sex)
strange phenomenon
monster / freak / eccentric person
HSK 7-9
not at all surprising (idiom)
(idiom) all kinds of evil spirits or malevolent beings
eccentric / odd-looking / peculiar
hobgoblin / bogey / phantom
Pokémon (Japanese media franchise)
strange person / eccentric
outlandish / strange-looking / grotesque
monster / devil
HSK 7-9
to blame / to rebuke
HSK 7-9
(idiom) mischievously clever; whimsically quirky
rare animal / mythical animal / monster
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果|维克多·雨果
fantastic oddities of every description (idiom); grotesquely shaped
eccentricity / peculiarity / strange hobby
freak / abnormal embryo / fetus with deformity
monstre sacré (i.e. artist famous for being deliberately preposterous)
to blame
strange tales and absurd arguments (idiom) / unreasonable remarks
to blame / to rebuke
demons and ghosts / ghouls and bogies
monstrous and multicolored / grotesque and variegated
queer uncle, referring to a young to middle-aged male pedophile (Internet slang)
to make a fuss about nothing (idiom)
HSK 7-9
supernatural being (such as a demon, monster, ghost, spirit, gremlin etc)
to have seen sth so often that it doesn't seem strange at all; to be well accustomed (to sth)
quaint / odd and picturesque / weird and wonderful
monstrous / strange / strange phenomenon
HSK 7-9
uncanny / unbelievable / ridiculous / outrageous
grotesque visage / grimace
faun, half-goat half-human creature of Greek mythology
a goblin / a spirit
crop circle
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *怪* | 怪* | *怪
bewildering / odd / strange / uncanny / devil / monster / to wonder at / to blame / quite / rather
HSK 4
The Strange State of the World Witnessed Over 20 Years, novel by late Qing novelist Wu Jianren 吳趼人|吴趼人
strangely enough / oddly enough / strange to say
strange / weird / eccentric / bizarre
HSK 7-9
strange / odd / to marvel / to be baffled
HSK 3
to write about mysterious or supernatural things
strange voice / affected manner of speaking
no wonder (that...)
weird (temperament)
to blame sb wrongly
tales of the supernatural (genre of fiction)
strange thing / curious occurrence
it'd be a wonder if... (following a verb phrase that is usually negative)
bigfoot
no wonder! / so that's why!
HSK 7-9
(idiom) strange accent; odd manner of speaking or singing
please don't take offense; don't take it personally
(idiom) crazy; bizarre; weird; fantastic; strange
(it's) no wonder (that...) / (it's) not surprising (that)
HSK 7-9
freak / weird
strange odor
odd expression / funny looks / queer face / to grimace / to give sb funny looks / to pull faces
fantastic oddities of every description (idiom)
eccentric genius; quirky genius
Frankenstein (novel)
to mind / to take offense
please don't be upset / no hard feelings / absit iniuria verbis / let injury by words be absent
grotesque
Loch Ness Monster
nobody will find fault with extra courtesy (idiom) / courtesy costs nothing
spirits and devils (usually harmful) / demon
malevolent spirits
eccentric / peculiar / mystifying
to marvel
ugly people will do all kinds of weird things to get attention (idiom)
(idiom) extraordinary occurrence; bizarre event
(slang) (Tw) loony / freak
astonished
absurd / unthinkable
lit. a person who has seen little of the world will be astonished by certain things (idiom) / fig. to be taken aback by sth because of one's lack of sophistication; naive; unworldly
Death wish, movie series with Charles Bronson
eccentric notion / strange whim
No wonder! / not surprising
sea monster; aquatic monster
don't blame (sb)
lit. to summon demons to create havoc (idiom) / fig. to stir up all kinds of trouble
eccentric / peculiar
(Tw) excavator; backhoe
see 乖戾
to do sth wacky / wacky / wacky behavior
no wonder!
ridiculous talk / preposterous remark
odd / unusual / I can't believe that ...
vicious circle / (abnormal) phenomenon
strange / mystic
strange / curious / surprising
ugly person
(dialect) strange
variant of 稀奇古怪
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *恠* | 恠* | *恠
variant of
HSK 4


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