also: きょうもう
His eccentric behavior baffled the villagers.
In old documents, the expression 'a person of wild eccentricity' can be found.
Obsolete kanji compound; the reading きょうぼう is the primary reading.
Alternate historical reading; less common than きょうぼう.
The term 狂妄 is a Sino-Japanese compound combining 狂 (mad, wild) and 妄 (delusion, reckless). Its exact historical derivation is uncertain, but it appears in classical Chinese and was adopted into Japanese literary usage, now obsolete.