灵魂出窍

靈魂出竅
línghún-chūqiào
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 out-of-body experience
  2. 2 to be utterly transported (by music, art, beauty, fear)
  3. 3 (figurative) to space out completely

Examples

HSK 5
Tīngdào zhè shǒu gē, wǒ jiǎnzhí línghúnchūqiào.
When I heard that song, I felt completely transported out of myself.
HSK 6
Tā bèi xià de línghúnchūqiào.
He was so frightened he felt his soul leave his body.

Tips

culture
窍 means the bodily orifices through which Daoist tradition believed the spirit could leave the body. The phrase originally described shamanic or Daoist soul-flight; modern colloquial use covers anything from a transcendent concert experience to being so scared you "lose yourself."

Stroke Order

灵 líng
魂 hún
出 chū
窍 qiào