突发奇想 — Chinese idiom
突发奇想
tū fā qí xiǎng
Traditional: 突發奇想
Meaning
- suddenly have a thought
- suddenly be inspired to do something
Character by character
- 突tūsudden, abrupt, unexpected
- 发fāto issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
- 奇qístrange, unusual, odd; uncanny, occult
- 想xiǎngto believe, to wish for; to consider, to plan, to
Idioms sharing a character
- 曲突徙薪 qū tū xǐ xīn
- 狼奔豕突 láng bēn shǐ tū
- 异军突起 yì jūn tū qǐ
- 一言不发 yī yán bù fā
- 一语不发 yī yǔ bù fā
- 不悱不发 bù fěi bù fā
- 令人发指 lìng rén fà zhǐ
- 先发制人 xiān fā zhì rén
- 千钧一发 qiān jūn yī fà
- 升官发财 shēng guān fā cái
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