玄奥

玄奧
xuán'ào
adjective

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 2
Tā jiǎng de tài xuán'ào, wǒ wánquán tīngbudǒng.
He spoke so abstrusely that I couldn't follow at all.
HSK 7-9
《 Dàodéjīng 》 de sīxiǎng shífēn xuán'ào.
The thought of the Dao De Jing is deeply abstruse.

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