不可思議

See also 不思議

Translingual

simpl. 不可思议
trad. 不可

Number

不可思議

  1. 1064

See also


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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Adjectival noun

不可思議 (な-na inflection, hiragana ふかしぎ, romaji fukashigi)

  1. mysterious, inscrutable

Inflection

Noun

不可思議 (hiragana ふかしぎ, romaji fukashigi)

  1. In the traditional Japanese number system, 1064 or ten vigintillion of the American system.
  2. mysteriousness

References

  • Seiko Genius Japanese-English Electronic Dictionary (ジーニアス和英辞典)

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Mandarin

simpl. 不可思议
trad. 不可

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ pu˥˩kʰə˨˩sɨ˥˥i˥˩ ]

Etymology

Literally: cannot ponder the significance of

Idiom

不可思議 (traditional, Pinyin bùkěsīyì, simplified 不可思议)

  1. mysterious; unimaginable; incomprehensible
    簡直不可思議
    From the sound of it, this is something that is simply incomprehensible.

Noun

不可思議 (traditional, Pinyin bùkěsīyì, simplified 不可思议)

  1. The number 1064

References

  • Wikipedia-logo.png 十進位 on the Mandarin Wikipedia.zh.Wikipedia:十進位
  • "不可思議" (in Mandarin), Guoyu Cidian On-line Mandarin Dictionary (國語辭典). URL accessed on 2009-05-17.
  • 1997, Jerome P. Keuper, Chinese 1000: Idiomatic and Colloquial Expressions (中国话:习惯用法和口语的表达法) (in English/Mandarin), Florida: Krieger Publishing Company, ISBN 1-57524-006-8:

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Min Nan

simpl. 不可思议
trad. 不可

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ put˥˥kʰo˥˥su˧˧ɡi˧˧ ]

Etymology

Literally: cannot ponder the significance of

Idiom

不可思議 (traditional, POJ put-khó-su-gī, simplified 不可思议)

  1. mysterious; unimaginable; incomprehensible
    • 2005: anon., M̄-nā 無路用, 更加是阻礙!! (blog rant about poor news coverage: Not only is it not useful, it is a hinderance!)
      無仝 ê 新聞台, 竟然 lóng 報導差不多仝款 ê 新聞內容, che 有影不可思議 ê 現象
      bô-kâng ê sin-bûn-tâi, kéng-jiân lóng pò-tō chha-put-to kâng-khóan ê sin-bûn lāi-iông, che ū-iáⁿ sī put-khó-su-gī ê hiān-siōng
      Even for different newstations, they still all report almost the same news content. This is really an incomprehensible phenomenon
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