出奇 (chū qí) — unusual; extraordinary | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

adjective

unusualextraordinary

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Jīn nián de dōng tiān lěng dé chū qí, suǒ yǒu rén dōu chuān shàng le zuì hòu de yī fu.
This year's winter is unusually cold; everyone put on their thickest clothes.
出奇，。
Tā de huà fēng chū qí, ràng rén guò mù bú wàng.
His painting style is extraordinary and unforgettable.
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Zhè jiā xiǎo diàn de shēng yì hǎo dé chū qí, měi tiān gù kè dōu pái cháng duì.
The business of this small shop is extraordinarily good; customers line up every day.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

动宾dòngbīnVerb + object

An action followed by what it acts on, fused into one word.

出chūbring out

奇qístrange

出 means bring out and 奇 means strange; together they suggest something that stands out as unusual.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

出 combines 止 (foot) and 凵 (cave) to show a foot stepping out of a cave.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

大可奇

Meaning part形符xíngfú

大大dàbig; great

Sound part声符shēngfú

可

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

奇 pairs 大 (big; great) with 可, a sound part.

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