晦澀

晦涩
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

詩文、樂曲等含意隱晦不易懂。

重編國語辭典

作品含意隱晦不好懂。

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 澀 sè
  1. astringent
  2. tart
  3. acerbity
  4. unsmooth
  5. rough (surface)
  6. hard to understand
  7. obscure

Containing this entry

艱深晦澀 jiānshēnhuìsè abstruse and unfathomable (idiom)

Related entries

難懂 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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