晦涩

晦澀

huìsè

adjective #28,209

Meanings

1 obscure
2 difficult to understand
3 cryptic; abstruse

Characters

dark; gloomy; the last day of the lunar month

astringent; rough; unsmooth

Examples

HSK 3

他的文章写得太晦涩了，读者很难抓住重点。

Tā de wénzhāng xiě de tài huìsè le, dúzhě hěn nán zhuāzhù zhòngdiǎn.

His article is written too obscurely; readers have a hard time grasping the main point.

HSK 4

这首诗语言晦涩，很难理解。

Zhè shǒu shī yǔyán huìsè, hěn nán lǐjiě.

The language of this poem is obscure and very difficult to understand.

Tips

memory

晦 means 'dark/gloomy' (as in a moonless night) and 涩 means 'rough/astringent.' Something 晦涩 is as hard to penetrate as darkness, and as rough to swallow as something astringent.

Stroke Order

晦 huì

涩 sè