妙算

miàosuàn

noun #33,156

Meanings

1 clever scheme
2 ingenious plan
3 wonderful calculation

Characters

wonderful; ingenious

to calculate; to plan

Examples

诸葛亮神机妙算。

Zhūgě Liàng shénjī miàosuàn.

Zhuge Liang was a master of ingenious schemes.

这真是一招妙算。

Zhè zhēn shì yī zhāo miàosuàn.

This really is a brilliant move.

Tips

culture

Almost always lives inside the chengyu 神机妙算 (shénjī miàosuàn, 'divine schemes and wonderful calculations') — the traditional epithet for the strategist 诸葛亮 (Zhuge Liang) of the Three Kingdoms era. Outside that idiom, 妙算 is rare in modern speech.

Stroke Order

妙 miào

算 suàn