戾
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to bend; to violate; to go against; ruthless and tyrannical
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 戶 +4
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 戾
- Common rank
- #3,374
- Unicode
- U+623E
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 戾
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 戾气 | evil tendencies; vicious currents; antisocial behavior | |
| 戾龙 | mythical evil serpent; evil dragon in Western mythology, cf Revelations 14:12 | |
| 暴戾 | ruthless | |
| 怪戾 | see 乖戾[guai1 li4] | |
| 凶戾 | cruel; tyrannical | |
| 违戾 | to violate; to go against | |
| 暴戾恣睢 | (idiom) cruel; ruthless; tyrannical | |
| 乖戾 | perverse (behavior); disagreeable (character) |
Sound family
These characters use 戾 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 戾 sound part | perverse, rebellious, recalcitrant | |
| 捩 | to twist, to tear, to snap | |
| 唳 | a bird's cry |