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狎

xiá
verb #51,699

Meanings

  1. 1 to treat with disrespectful familiarity
  2. 2 to take liberties with
  3. 3 to treat frivolously

Examples

HSK 5
他狎弄女子，大家都讨厌他。
Tā xiá nòng nǚzǐ, dàjiā dōu tǎoyàn tā.
He took improper liberties with the women, and everyone disliked him.
HSK 7-9
驴子靠近后，对老虎越发狎了。
Lǘzi kàojìn hòu, duì lǎohǔ yuèfā xiá le.
Coming closer, the donkey grew more reckless with the tiger.

Tips

register
狎 is a literary, bound character. It carries a negative sense of being overly familiar in a disrespectful or improper way, often in set phrases like 狎妓 (to consort with prostitutes).

Components

radical
犭 quǎn
dog
犭 is the dog radical 犬 in left-side form. The original sense was a tamed dog playing with people, which broadened to overly casual closeness.
phonetic
甲 jiǎ
armor; first
甲 supplies the sound, shifted from jiǎ to xiá. It functions purely as the phonetic element here, lending no meaning.

Stroke Order

狎 xiá