匪夷所思

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Chinese

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bandit; not
safe; to raze; to exterminate
safe; to raze; to exterminate; barbarian
 
actually; place; (nominalization prefix) to think; to consider
trad. (匪夷所思)
simp. #(匪夷所思)

Etymology

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From I Ching, Hexagram 59 (《易经·渙卦》):

匪夷所思 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
匪夷所思 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
From: I Ching, 11th – 8th century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
Liù sì: huàn qí qún, yuán jí. Huàn yǒu qiū, fěi yí suǒ sī. [Pinyin]
The fourth SIX, divided, shows its subject scattering the (different) parties (in the state); which leads to great good fortune. From the dispersion (he collects again good men standing out, a crowd) like a mound, which is what ordinary men would not have thought of.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/2
Initial () (1) (36) (21) (16)
Final () (21) (15) (22) (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open Open Open
Division () III III III III
Fanqie
Baxter pj+jX yij srjoX si
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʉiX/ /jiɪ/ /ʃɨʌX/ /sɨ/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʷɨiX/ /ji/ /ʃiɔX/ /sɨ/
Shao
Rongfen
/piuəiX/ /jɪ/ /ʃiɔX/ /sie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pujX/ /ji/ /ʂɨə̆X/ /sɨ/
Li
Rong
/piuəiX/ /i/ /ʃiɔX/ /siə/
Wang
Li
/pĭwəiX/ /ji/ /ʃĭoX/ /sĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pwe̯iX/ /i/ /ʂi̯woX/ /si/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fěi shǔ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fei2 ji4 so2 si1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/2 2/2 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
fěi fěi suǒ
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjɨjX › ‹ pjɨjX › ‹ yij › ‹ yij › ‹ srjoX › ‹ si ›
Old
Chinese
/*pəjʔ/ /*pəjʔ/ /*ləj/ /*ləj/ /*s-qʰ<r>aʔ/ /*[s]ə/
English bamboo basket bandit level, peaceful foreigner (especially to the east) place (n.); that which think

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/2
No. 3085 14862 5306 13835
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pɯlʔ/ /*lil/ /*sqʰraʔ/ /*snɯ/

Idiom

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匪夷所思

  1. not what an ordinary person can imagine; unimaginable; unusual; fantastic