Chinese symbol for “baffling”
莫名其妙
mò míng qí miào
(idiom) baffling; bizarre; without rhyme or reason; inexplicable
The closest CC-CEDICT match for baffling is 莫名其妙 (mò míng qí miào), defined as: (idiom) baffling; bizarre; without rhyme or reason; inexplicable.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 莫名其妙.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 莫过于 (莫過於) | mò guò yú | nothing can surpass |
| 莫非 | mò fēi | can it be possible that; could it be |
| 莫大 | mò dà | greatest; most important |
| 莫名 | mò míng | inexpressible; indescribable; unexplainable; inexplicable |
| 约莫 (約莫) | yuē mo | to estimate; to guess; about; around; approximately |
| 名字 | míng zi | name (of a person or thing) |
| 著名 | zhù míng | famous; noted |
| 名称 (名稱) | míng chēng | name (of a thing); name (of an organization) |
| 其他 | qí tā | other; (sth or sb) else |
| 奇妙 | qí miào | wonderful; marvelous; intriguing; mysterious; strange |
See also: Japanese symbol for “baffling”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.