bewildering / odd / strange / uncanny / devil / monster / to wonder at / to blame / quite / rather

= + : Gitta Giraffe meets Father Christmas in the airplane's bathroom. She finds it rather bewildering that instead of a sack full of presents he holds a big flail. He also looks kind of grumpy, almost like a big monster.
variant of 怪[guai4]

= + : Gitta Giraffe meets Father Christmas in the airplane's bathroom. She finds it rather bewildering that instead of a sack full of presents he holds a big flail. He also looks kind of grumpy, almost like a big monster.

怪 character breakdown

to dig
old variant of 聖|圣[sheng4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Father Christmas, 圣诞老人.

Sherlock Holmes is about to lose against Santa Claus in a boxing match in the engine's bathroom when he uses a dirty trick: lying on the floor he grabs some dirt and throws it into Santa Claus's face, thereby blinding him. Sherlock uses the opportunity to land a critical blow onto Santa Claus's big belly, but Santa doesn't even notice.
Kangxi radical 61 (心) as a vertical side element

Looks a bit like a flail.
holy / sacred / saint / sage

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Father Christmas, 圣诞老人.

Sherlock Holmes is about to lose against Santa Claus in a boxing match in the engine's bathroom when he uses a dirty trick: lying on the floor he grabs some dirt and throws it into Santa Claus's face, thereby blinding him. Sherlock uses the opportunity to land a critical blow onto Santa Claus's big belly, but Santa doesn't even notice.

Characters with 怪 as component

怪 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 怪

(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)
fantastic oddities of every description (idiom)
monstrous and multicolored / grotesque and variegated
not at all surprising (idiom)
quaint / odd and picturesque / weird and wonderful
The Strange State of the World Witnessed Over 20 Years, novel by late Qing novelist Wu Jianren 吳趼人|吴趼人[Wu2 Jian3 ren2]
Pokémon (Japanese media franchise)
strange / curious / surprising
don't blame (sb)

Sentences with 怪

1
1
zha̅ng
jiàn
hé
guài
wu
Chapter 1: the sword and the monster