wicked person; evil thing
Literary or formal term for a person or thing that is morally corrupt or evil. Often used in historical or dramatic contexts.
He went down in history as a wicked person.
The evil scheme was soon exposed.
Standard kanji form; 奸 carries a nuance of cunning or wickedness.
Variant form using 姦, which can imply lewdness or wickedness; less common than 奸邪.
Compound of 奸 (cunning, wicked) and 邪 (evil, wrong). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the combination has been used in classical Chinese and Japanese texts to denote moral corruption.