莫 mò
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 艹 — grass, weed, plant, herb
- Made of
- 艹 grass, weed, plant, herb 旲 daylight, sunlight
莫名其妙
mòmíngqímiào
inexplicable; baffling
Characters in this word
名 míng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
其 qí
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 八 — eight
Example phrases
- 他在会议上突然发火，弄得大家莫名其妙。 Tā zài huìyì shàng tūrán fāhuǒ, nòng de dàjiā mòmíngqímiào. He suddenly lost his temper in the meeting, leaving everyone baffled.
- 她莫名其妙地哭了起来，谁也不知道为什么。 Tā mòmíngqímiào de kū le qǐlái, shéi yě bù zhīdào wèishénme. She burst into tears for no apparent reason, and nobody knew why.
- 这件事真是莫名其妙，我什么都没做，他却生气了。 Zhè jiàn shì zhēn shì mòmíngqímiào, wǒ shénme dōu méi zuò, tā què shēngqì le. This is baffling: I did not do anything, yet he got angry.
Related words
- 变幻莫测 biànhuànmòcè unpredictable; constantly changing in unpredictable ways
- 莫大 mòdà greatest; enormous; immense
- 莫非 mòfēi could it be that; is it possible that
- 一筹莫展 yìchóumòzhǎn to be at one’s wits’ end
- 名字 míngzi name
- 有名 yǒumíng famous, well-known
- 报名 bàomíng to sign up
- 名 míng to be named
- 名称 míngchēng name; title
- 名单 míngdān name list
- 姓名 xìngmíng full name
- 排名 páimíng ranking