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莫名其妙

mò míng qí miào

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

莫名其妙 (mò míng qí miào) means "(idiom) baffling; bizarre; without rhyme or reason; inexplicable". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 莫名其妙 means

1. idiombaffling; bizarre; without rhyme or reason; inexplicable

The characters in 莫名其妙

• 莫mòdo not; there is none who
• 名míngname; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners)
• 其qíhis; her; its
• 妙miàoclever; wonderful

Sounds the same

Read mò míng qí miào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 莫明其妙variant of 莫名其妙

Where 莫名其妙 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · mó–mú (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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