Chinese symbol for “incomprehensible”
费解
fèi jiě
Traditional: 費解
to be puzzled; hard to understand; unintelligible; incomprehensible
The closest CC-CEDICT match for incomprehensible is 费解 (fèi jiě), defined as: to be puzzled; hard to understand; unintelligible; incomprehensible.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “incomprehensible”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 深不可测 (深不可測) | shēn bù kě cè | deep and unmeasurable (idiom); unfathomable depths; incomprehensible |
| 不知所谓 (不知所謂) | bù zhī suǒ wèi | nonsense; nonsensical |
| 难以理解 (難以理解) | nán yǐ lǐ jiě | hard to understand; incomprehensible |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 费解.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 免费 (免費) | miǎn fèi | free (of charge) |
| 消费 (消費) | xiāo fèi | to consume (goods and services, resources etc) |
| 费用 (費用) | fèi yòng | cost; expenditure |
| 收费 (收費) | shōu fèi | to charge a fee |
| 消费者 (消費者) | xiāo fèi zhě | consumer |
| 浪费 (浪費) | làng fèi | to waste; to squander |
| 了解 | liǎo jiě | to understand; to know about; to learn about; to find out |
| 解决 (解決) | jiě jué | to solve; to resolve; to settle (a problem); to eliminate; to wipe out (an enemy, bandits etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “incomprehensible”.
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.