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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

莫名

mòmíng

inexpressible; indescribable; unexplainable; inexplicable

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

inexpressible; indescribable; unexplainable; inexplicable

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 莫名 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 莫名 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

这在最后得到了莫名的解释。zhè zài zuì hòu dé dào le mò míng de jiě shì。

That is somewhat explained at the end.

今天看著两个英语不好的孩子留下来背单字。他们一遍又一遍地练习同一道题,把记不住的单字抄写下来慢慢消化,这副模样让我莫名感动。jīn tiān kàn zhù liǎng gè yīng yǔ bù hǎo de hái zi liú xià lái bèi dān zì。 tā men yī biàn yòu yī biàn dì liàn xí tóng yī dào tí, bǎ jì bú zhù de dān zì chāo xiě xià lái màn màn xiāo huà, zhè fù mú yàng ràng wǒ mò míng gǎn dòng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 莫名.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 莫名.

Directly before

  • 了莫名1
  • 我莫名1

Directly after

  • 莫名的1
  • 莫名感动1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 莫名

What does 莫名 mean in Chinese?

莫名 (mòmíng) means inexpressible; indescribable; unexplainable; inexplicable.

How do you pronounce 莫名?

莫名 is pronounced mòmíng.

Is 莫名 an HSK word?

莫名 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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