莫名其妙

Pinyin
mòmíng-qímiào
English
without rhyme or reason
HSK level
HSK 6

莫名其妙 is pronounced mòmíng-qímiào and means “without rhyme or reason”. It is one of the words in the HSK 6 vocabulary, a level of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s standardised Chinese proficiency test. Recognising a word on a page and recalling it when you need it are different skills, and only the second survives a conversation — which is why LexiTrail shows you 莫名其妙 again just before you would have forgotten it, rather than on a fixed schedule.

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