(of a child) obedient, well-behaved / clever / shrewd / alert / perverse / contrary to reason / irregular / abnormal

= + : Gitta Giraffe wants to behave well in front of the airplane. She has a compass rose and a kilo, but she is totally not going to squash the compass rose.

乖 character breakdown

north / (classical) to be defeated

= + : A compass rose. In the Eiffel Tower, Beelzebub tries to build a compass. As a baseplate he uses a piece of wood, on which he sticks the north pike of a compass rose. On the south pike he balances a ladle, which is supposed to adjust itself to earth's magnetic field.
thousand

= 丿 + : The Queen of Hearts dropped a kilo on her banana in front of the anthill, and now she uses a cross to try and revive it.
see 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]

Characters with 乖 as component

乖 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 乖

goodness gracious! / oh my lord!
(of a child) well-behaved / obediently / (term of endearment for a child) darling / sweetie
recalcitrant / unreasonable / peevish
to part / to separate / to deviate
perceptive / alert / clever / shrewd
ridiculous / abnormal
stubborn / contrary / disobedient
obedient (colloquial)
to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom) / once bitten, twice shy
good little boy (or girl)
stubborn / contrary / disobedient

Sentences with 乖

nǐ
hái
bù
gua̅i
gua̅i
de
fú
guǎn