{"path":"/entry/16218","title":"匪夷所思 (fěi yí suǒ sī) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"匪夷所思 (fěi yí suǒ sī): unimaginable. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":16218,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["匪夷所思"],"TRADITIONAL":["匪夷所思"]}},"phonetic":"fěi yí suǒ sī","phoneticKey":"fei3 yi2 suo3 si1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"unimaginable","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"outrageous","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"freakish","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADJECTIVE","VERB"],"frequency":17720,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From I Ching, Hexagram 59 (《易经·渙卦》)","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"六四：涣其群，元吉。涣有丘，匪夷所思。","traditional":"六四：渙其群，元吉。渙有丘，匪夷所思。"},"phonetic":"Liù sì: huàn qí qún, yuán jí. Huàn yǒu qiū, fěi yí suǒ sī.","english":"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.","ref":"I Ching, 11ᵗʰ – 8ᵗʰ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}