玄奥

玄奧
xuán'ào
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 abstruse
  2. 2 profound and mysterious
  3. 3 deep and hard to understand

Examples

«Dàodéjīng» de sīxiǎng shífēn xuán'ào.
The thought of the Dao De Jing is deeply abstruse.
Tā jiǎng de tài xuán'ào, wǒ wánquán tīng bu dǒng.
He spoke so abstrusely that I couldn't follow at all.

Tips

memory
(mysterious, dark — same character as in 玄学 'metaphysics') + (deep, profound — as in 奥秘 'mystery'). Two 'deep & dark' characters stacked = something both mysterious and difficult to fathom.

Stroke Order

xuán
ào