古灵精怪 — Chinese idiom
古灵精怪
gǔ líng jīng guài
Traditional: 古靈精怪
Meaning
- mischievously clever; whimsically quirky
Character by character
- 古gǔold, classic, ancient
- 灵língspirit, soul; spiritual world
- 精jīngessence, germ, spirit
- 怪guàiunusual, strange, peculiar
Idioms sharing a character
- 亘古不变 gèn gǔ bù biàn
- 人心不古 rén xīn bù gǔ
- 借古讽今 jiè gǔ fěng jīn
- 前无古人 qián wú gǔ rén
- 千古罪人 qiān gǔ zuì rén
- 千古遗恨 qiān gǔ yí hèn
- 厚古薄今 hòu gǔ bó jīn
- 古井无波 gǔ jǐng wú bō
- 古今中外 gǔ jīn zhōng wài
- 彪炳千古 biāo bǐng qiān gǔ
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