狂
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mad; wild; violent
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 犬 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 狂
- Common rank
- #997
- Unicode
- U+72C2
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
crazy · Heisig RSH #271
王 king + pack of wild dogs
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 狂
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 口出狂言 | to speak conceited nonsense; to come out with arrogant claptrap | |
| 自大狂 | megalomania; egomania; delusions of grandeur | |
| 狂人日记 | Diary of a Madman by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4] | |
| 工作狂 | workaholic | |
| 色情狂 | mad about sex; nymphomania | |
| 狂战士 | berserker (Norse warrior or fantasy role-playing character) | |
| 狂牛病 | mad cow disease; bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE | |
| 精神狂乱 | delirium; mental illness | |
| 杀人狂 | homicidal maniac | |
| 狂人 | madman | |
| 发狂 | crazy; mad; madly | |
| 狂风 | gale; squall; whole gale (meteorology) | |
| 狂风暴雨 | (idiom) howling wind and torrential rain; furious storm; (fig.) (idiom) difficult circumst… | |
| 丧心病狂 | (idiom) deranged; demented; berserk | |
| 狂言 | ravings; delirious utterances; kyōgen (a form of traditional Japanese comic theater) | |
| 狂热 | zealotry; fanatical; feverish | |
| 狂暴者 | berserker (fantasy role-playing) | |
| 狂放 | wild; unrestrained | |
| 狂想曲 | rhapsody (music) | |
| 控制狂 | control freak |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 王 — compare how they read.