不可思議

See also: 不可思议

Chinese

cannot; should not; must not to imagine and comprehend
trad. (不可思議) 不可 思議
simp. (不可思议) 不可 思议
Literally: “cannot ponder the significance of”.

Etymology

Calque of Sanskrit अचिन्त्य (acintya, inconceivable) or calque of Pali acinteyya (imponderable).

Pronunciation


Adjective

不可思議

  1. inconceivable; unimaginable; incomprehensible
    聽起來簡直不可思議 [MSC, trad.]
    听起来简直不可思议 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhè jiàn shì tīngqilai jiǎnzhí bùkěsīyì. [Pinyin]
    From the sound of it, this is something that is simply incomprehensible.
  2. (Buddhism) incomprehensible by the human mind

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (不可思議):

Noun

不可思議

  1. (obsolete) The number 1064

Japanese

Kanji in this term

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on’yomi

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) しぎ [fùkáꜜshìgì] (Nakadaka – [2])[1][2]
  • IPA(key): [ɸɯ̟̊ᵝka̠ɕiɡʲi]

Adjective

()()()() • (fukashigi) -na (adnominal ()()()() (fukashigi na), adverbial ()()()() (fukashigi ni))

  1. mysterious, inscrutable

Inflection

Noun

()()()() • (fukashigi) 

  1. In the traditional Japanese number system, 1064 or ten vigintillion of the American system.
  2. mysteriousness

Derived terms

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  • Seiko Genius Japanese-English Electronic Dictionary (ジーニアス和英辞典)

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

不可思議 • (bulgasaui) (hangeul 불가사의)

  1. Hanja form? of 불가사의 (mysteriousness).
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