离 lí
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 禸 — rump
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
离谱儿
lípǔr
outrageous; absurd; unreasonable
Characters in this word
谱 pǔ
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 普 widespread, universal, general
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
儿 ér
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 儿 — son, child
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 这个预算离谱儿得让人怀疑他们根本没做过市场调查。 Zhège yùsuàn lípǔr de ràng rén huáiyí tāmen gēnběn méi zuò guò shìchǎng diàochá. This budget is so absurd that it makes people suspect they never did any market research at all.
- 这件衣服的价格贵得离谱儿，我才不买。 Zhè jiàn yīfu de jiàgé guì de lípǔr, wǒ cái bù mǎi. This piece of clothing is outrageously expensive; I'm definitely not buying it.
- 他说自己一天能吃十碗饭，这也太离谱儿了吧！ Tā shuō zìjǐ yì tiān néng chī shí wǎn fàn, zhè yě tài lípǔr le ba! He says he can eat ten bowls of rice a day. That's just absurd!
Related words
- 离 lí from (distance)
- 离开 líkāi to leave
- 离婚 líhūn to divorce
- 距离 jùlí distance
- 离不开 líbùkāi cannot do without
- 分离 fēnlí to separate; to part
- 脱离 tuōlí to break away from; to leave
- 悲欢离合 bēihuānlíhé joys and sorrows; partings and reunions
- 撤离 chèlí to evacuate; to withdraw from
- 隔离 gélí to isolate; to separate; to quarantine
- 离奇 líqí bizarre; strange; extraordinary
- 偏离 piānlí to deviate from; to depart from