1. adjective perverse
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Also an archaic variant of 櫪 (Kroll 2015 '戾' 1a, p. 263; Unihan '戾'; XHZD '戾' 2, p. 435)
  2. adjective unreasonable
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '戾' 1, p. 263; Unihan '戾'; XHZD '戾' 2, p. 435)
  3. adjective brutal; violent
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '戾'; Guoyu '戾' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '戾' 2, p. 263)
  4. verb arrive at; come to
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '戾' v 1; Kroll 2015 '戾' 5, p. 263; XHZD '戾' 3, p. 435)
  5. noun sin; crime
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CC-CEDICT '戾'; Guoyu '戾' n; Kroll 2015 '戾' 3, p. 263; Guoyu '戾' n; XHZD '戾' 1, p. 435)
  6. adjective stable; unyeilding
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '戾' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '戾' 4, p. 263)
  7. adjective perverse; viparīta
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: viparīta, Japanese: rei, or: rai (BCSD '戾', p. 523; MW 'viparīta'; Unihan '戻')

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