莫名其妙 mòmíngqímiào

HSK level

Traditional form

莫名其妙 mòmíngqímiào

Part of speech

Idiom / 成语 chéngyǔ Chéngyǔ

莫 Mò

Explanation

Depicts the sun (日 Rì ) shining through vegetation (艸 cǎo ). Based on the original meaning "sunset", now written as 暮 mù . The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Positional decomposition

⿱艹旲

Number of Strokes

名 míng

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Traditionally explained as identifying youself at night (夕 xī ) by saying (口 kǒu ) your name (名 míng ) because is too dark for others to see you.

Positional decomposition

⿸夕口

Number of Strokes

其 qí

Explanation

Pictograph of a basket, now written as 箕 jī . The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Positional decomposition

⿱甘 Gān ⿱一八

Number of Strokes

妙 miào

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. 女 nǚ represents the meaning and 少 shǎo represents the sound. Simplified form of 玅.

Phonetic compound

少 shǎo

Semantic compound

女 nǚ

Positional decomposition

⿰女少

Number of Strokes

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他 tā 一声不吭 yī shēng bù kēng 就 jiù 走 zǒu 了 le ,真 zhēn 叫人莫名其妙 mòmíngqímiào .

It is quite baffling that he left without a word.

那些 nà xiē 文件 wénjiàn 丢 diū 得 dé 莫名其妙 mòmíngqímiào .

The disappearance of the papers has never been accounted for.

七亿五千万 Mò 的 de 赤字 chìzì 莫名其妙 mòmíngqímiào 地 de 达到 dádào 了 le 八亿.

The 750 million yuan deficIt'somehow got rounded up to 800 million yuan.

这 zhè 类人可能 kěnéng 会 huì 莫名其妙 mòmíngqímiào 地 de 感到 gǎn dào 头晕 tóu yūn 。

The person may become dizzy for no apparent reason.

接着 jiēzhe ，她 tā 莫名其妙 mòmíngqímiào 地 de 咯咯 gē gē 笑了起来。

And then, unaccountably, she giggled.

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