不可思议

Mandarin

simpl.		不可思议
trad.		不可思議

Etymology

Literally: cannot ponder the significance of

Pronunciation

Mandarin (Standard Chinese, Beijing) Pinyin bùkěsīyì Zhuyin ㄅㄨˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄙ ㄧˋ IPA (key) /pu⁵¹ kʰɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ sz̩⁵⁵ i⁵¹/

Idiom

不可思议 (simplified, Pinyin bùkěsīyì, traditional 不可思議)

1. mysterious; unimaginable; incomprehensible

   这件事听起来简直不可思议。

   From the sound of it, this is something that is simply incomprehensible.

Noun

不可思议 (simplified, Pinyin bùkěsīyì, traditional 不可思議)

1. The number 10⁶⁴

References

• 十进位 on the Mandarin Wikipedia.zh.Wikipedia:十进位

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Min Nan

simpl.		不可思议
trad.		不可思議

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ put˥˥kʰo˥˥su˥˥ɡi˥˥ ]

Etymology

Literally: cannot ponder the significance of

Idiom

不可思议 (simplified, POJ put-khó-su-gī, traditional 不可思議, simplified 不可思议)

1. mysterious; unimaginable; incomprehensible
   • 2005: anon., M̄-nā 無路用, 更加是阻礙!! (blog rant about poor news coverage: Not only is it not useful, it is a hinderance!)

     无仝 ê 新闻台, 竟然 lóng 报导差不多仝款 ê 新闻内容, che 有影是不可思议 ê 现象

     bô-kâng ê sin-bûn-tâi, kéng-jiân lóng pò-tō chha-put-to kâng-khóan ê sin-bûn lāi-iông, che ū-iáⁿ sī put-khó-su-gī ê hiān-siōng

     Even for different newstations, they still all report almost the same news content. This is really an incomprehensible phenominon

See also

• (Japanese) 不可思議 (ふかしぎ, fukashigi)