晦涩

晦澀
huìsè
  1. difficult to understand
  2. cryptic

CEDICT

  1. (of literary writing, music, etc.) hard to understand; obscure; pedantic; inkhorn; abstruse
  2. hard to understand; obscure; pedantic; inkhorn; abstruse

Wiktionary

诗文、乐曲等含意隐晦不易懂。

重編國語辭典

作品含意隐晦不好懂。

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 晦 huì
  1. (bound form) last day of a lunar month
  2. (bound form) dark; gloomy
  3. (literary) night
=2 涩 sè
  1. astringent
  2. tart
  3. acerbity
  4. unsmooth
  5. rough (surface)
  6. hard to understand
  7. obscure
=2 涩 sè old variant of 涩 sè

Containing this entry

艰深晦涩 jiānshēnhuìsè abstruse and unfathomable (idiom)

Related entries

难懂 nándǒng difficult to understand
他们说温州话很难懂，是吗？

They say Wenzhounese is hard to understand, right?

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