Chinese symbol for “unpredictable”
捉摸不定
zhuō mō bù dìng
(idiom) unpredictable; elusive; hard to pin down
The closest CC-CEDICT match for unpredictable is 捉摸不定 (zhuō mō bù dìng), defined as: (idiom) unpredictable; elusive; hard to pin down.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “unpredictable”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 变化莫测 (變化莫測) | biàn huà mò cè | unpredictable; changeable |
| 诡谲多变 (詭譎多變) | guǐ jué duō biàn | (idiom) unpredictable; ever-changing |
| 变幻莫测 (變幻莫測) | biàn huàn mò cè | to change unpredictably; unpredictable |
| 叵测 (叵測) | pǒ cè | unfathomable; unpredictable |
| 波谲云诡 (波譎雲詭) | bō jué yún guǐ | (idiom) ever-changing; unpredictable |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 捉摸不定.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 捕捉 | bǔ zhuō | to catch; to seize; to capture |
| 活捉 | huó zhuō | to capture alive |
| 捉住 | zhuō zhù | to catch; to grapple with |
| 捉弄 | zhuō nòng | to tease |
| 捉拿 | zhuō ná | to arrest; to catch a criminal |
| 捉摸 | zhuō mō | to fathom; to make sense of |
| 抚摸 (撫摸) | fǔ mō | to gently caress and stroke; to pet |
| 触摸 (觸摸) | chù mō | to touch |
| 不是 | bù shì | no; is not |
| 决定 (決定) | jué dìng | to decide; to determine; to make up one's mind; decision (个 (gè),项 (xiàng)) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “unpredictable”.
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.