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

strange / odd / to marvel / to be baffled
strange / weird / eccentric / bizarre
(it's) no wonder (that...) / (it's) not surprising (that)
hobgoblin / bogey / phantom
demons and ghosts / ghouls and bogies
eccentric / peculiar / mystifying
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果|维克多·雨果[Wei2 ke4 duo1 · Yu3 guo3]
a goblin / a spirit
ghoulies and bogeys / things that go bump in the night

Sentences with 怪

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