玄 (xuán) — mysterious, profound, abstruse; (colloquial) unreliable, far-fetched; (dated) black, dark
Definition
Literary adjective meaning 'profound and hard to grasp' (玄学), stronger and more written than 神秘 ('mysterious'). Colloquially also means 'far-fetched, unreliable'.
adjective
mysteriousprofoundabstruse(colloquial) unreliablefar-fetched(dated) blackdark
Examples
- ，。Zhè piān lùn wén jiǎng de shì xuán xué lǐ lùn, fēi cháng nán dǒng.This paper discusses abstruse theories and is very hard to understand.
- 玄，。Tā shuō de nà ge bàn fǎ tài xuán le, wǒ zǒng jué de bú kào pǔ.The method he mentioned sounds too far-fetched; I just don't think it's reliable.
- 玄，。Gǔ rén cháng chuān xuán sè yī fu, yǐ shì zhuāng zhòng.Ancient people often wore dark-colored clothes to show solemnity.
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