音読み: キョウ
訓読み: くるう・くるおしい
画数: 7
部首: けものへん（犭）
Meaning
Mad / Wild / Frenzy
- Basic forms
- 狂う — go mad; go wrong; be out of order / base form
- 狂います — goes mad; goes wrong / masu form
- 狂った — went mad; went wrong / ta form
- 狂って — going mad; being out of order / te form
- 狂わない — does not go mad / negative
- 狂えば — if (something) goes wrong / conditional
- Common expressions
- 歯車が狂う — things go out of sync
- 計画が狂った — the plan went wrong
- 感覚が狂ったようだ — one’s sense seems off
- More
- 狂っている — is off; is out of order / state
狂う（くるう） is a godan intransitive verb. It is used both literally (losing sanity) and figuratively to describe plans, timing, or systems that no longer function as expected.
- 狂う — to go mad; to go out of order
- 狂しい — maddening; frenzied
- 狂気 — madness; insanity
- 狂犬 — rabid dog
- 狂喜 — wild joy; rapture
- 狂乱 — frenzy; delirium
狂 combines the radical 犭（けものへん） “animal” with the phonetic element giving the reading キョウ. From the image of a rabid, uncontrolled animal it extended to “madness,” “wildness,” and “frenzy.”