晦涩

晦澀
huìsè
adjective #28,209

Meanings

  1. 1 obscure
  2. 2 difficult to understand
  3. 3 cryptic; abstruse

Examples

Zhè shǒu shī yǔyán huìsè, hěn nán lǐjiě.
The language of this poem is obscure and very difficult to understand.
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.

Tips

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

Stroke Order

huì