Chinese symbol for “inexplicably”

平白无故

píng bái wú gù

Traditional: 平白無故

(idiom) for no reason whatever; inexplicably

The closest CC-CEDICT match for inexplicably is 平白无故 (píng bái wú gù), defined as: (idiom) for no reason whatever; inexplicably.

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Characters and stroke order

平 píng

flat, level, even; peaceful

radical 51 ⼲ · 5 strokes

白 bái

white; clear, pure, unblemished; bright

radical 106 ⽩ · 5 strokes

无 wú

no, not; lacking, -less

radical 71 ⽆ · 4 strokes

故 gù

reason, cause; happening, instance

radical 66 ⽁ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

無 wú

Related words

Other words that share a character with 平白无故.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
平台 (平臺)	píng tái	platform; terrace
和平	hé píng	peace; peaceful
水平	shuǐ píng	horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc)
平均	píng jūn	average; on average; evenly; in equal proportions
公平	gōng píng	fair; impartial
平等	píng děng	equal; equality
明白	míng bai	clear; obvious; unequivocal; sensible; reasonable
白色	bái sè	white; fig. reactionary
无法 (無法)	wú fǎ	unable to; incapable of
故事	gù shì	old practice

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.