"strange bedfellows" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
同床异梦 同床異夢 tóng chuáng yì mèng lit. to share the same bed with different dreams (idiom) / ostensible partners with different agendas / strange bedfellows / marital dissension syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
奇怪 qí guài strange / odd / to marvel / to be baffled syn
见鬼 見鬼 jiàn guǐ absurd / strange / (interj.) curse it! / to hell with it! syn
古怪 gǔ guài strange / weird / eccentric / bizarre syn
怪异 怪異 guài yì monstrous / strange / strange phenomenon syn
诡异 詭異 guǐ yì strange / weird syn
怪人 guài rén strange person / eccentric syn
陌生 mò shēng strange / unfamiliar syn
奇妙 qí miào wonderful / marvelous / intriguing / mysterious / strange syn
怪事 guài shì strange thing / curious occurrence syn
蹊跷 蹊蹺 qī qiāo odd / queer / strange / fishy syn
稀奇 xī qí rare / strange syn
怪癖 guài pǐ eccentricity / peculiarity / strange hobby syn
作怪 zuò guài (of a ghost) to make strange things happen / to act up / to act behind the scenes / to make mischief / odd / to misbehave (euphemism for having sex) syn
生疏 shēng shū unfamiliar / strange / out of practice / not accustomed syn
怪味 guài wèi strange odor
稀奇古怪 xī qí gǔ guài crazy / bizarre / weird / fantastic / strange syn
见怪不怪 見怪不怪 jiàn guài bù guài to have seen sth so often that it doesn't seem strange at all / to be well accustomed (to sth) syn
珍奇 zhēn qí rare / strange syn
异状 異狀 yì zhuàng unusual condition / something odd / strange shape
奇绝 奇絕 qí jué strange / rare / bizarre syn
灵异 靈異 líng yì deity / monster / strange / mysterious / supernatural
奇诡 奇詭 qí guǐ strange / queer / intriguing
strange / odd / weird / wonderful / surprisingly / unusually syn
different / other / hetero- / unusual / strange / surprising / to distinguish / to separate / to discriminate syn
xié demonic / iniquitous / nefarious / evil / unhealthy influences that cause disease (Chinese medicine) / (coll.) strange / abnormal syn
珍闻 珍聞 zhēn wén oddity / news tidbits / strange and interesting item
咄咄怪事 duō duō guài shì strange / absurd / paradoxical / extraordinary syn
guī grand / strange / exotic
奇谈怪论 奇談怪論 qí tán guài lùn strange tales and absurd arguments (idiom) / unreasonable remarks syn
巴山夜雨 bā shān yè yǔ rain on Mt Ba (idiom) / lonely in a strange land / Evening Rain, 1980 movie about the Cultural Revolution
希奇古怪 xī qí gǔ guài crazy / bizarre / weird / fantastic / strange
怪模怪样 怪模怪樣 guài mó guài yàng outlandish / strange-looking / grotesque syn
异响 異響 yì xiǎng unusual sound / strange noise / to make a strange sound
聊斋志异 聊齋志異 liáo zhāi zhì yì Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Qing dynasty book of tales by 蒲松齡|蒲松龄[Pu2 Song1 ling2]
二十年目睹之怪现状 二十年目睹之怪現狀 èr shí nián mù dǔ zhī guài xiàn zhuàng The Strange State of the World Witnessed Over 20 Years, novel by late Qing novelist Wu Jianren 吳趼人|吴趼人[Wu2 Jian3 ren2]
吴趼人 吳趼人 wú jiǎn rén Wu Jianren (1867-1910), late Qing dynasty novelist, author of The strange state of the world witnessed over 20 years 二十年目睹之怪現狀|二十年目睹之怪现状
嗜痂成癖 shì jiā chéng pǐ to have strange and dangerous addictions (idiom) syn
奇伟 奇偉 qí wěi singular and majestic / strange and grand syn
奇崛 qí jué strange and prominent syn
奇异夸克 奇異夸克 qí yì kuā kè strange quark (particle physics)
奇谲 奇譎 qí jué strange and deceitful / sly / treacherous
吊诡矜奇 弔詭矜奇 diào guǐ jīn qí strange and paradoxical
怪念头 怪念頭 guài niàn tou eccentric notion / strange whim
怪秘 怪祕 guài mì strange / mystic
怪声怪气 怪聲怪氣 guài shēng guài qì strange voice / affected manner of speaking syn
独在异乡为异客 獨在異鄉為異客 dú zài yì xiāng wéi yì kè a stranger in a strange land (from a poem by Wang Wei 王維|王维[Wang2 Wei2])
异事 異事 yì shì sth else / a separate matter / not the same thing / with different jobs (not colleagues) / a remarkable thing / sth special / an odd thing / sth strange or incomprehensible
异文鄙事 異文鄙事 yì wén bǐ shì strange writing by rustic or illiterate
眼生 yǎn shēng unfamiliar / strange-looking syn
邪门 邪門 xié mén strange / unusual / evil ways / dishonest practices
可怪 kě guài strange / curious / surprising
日怪 rì guài (dialect) strange
怪腔怪调 怪腔怪調 guài qiāng guài diào strange accent / odd manner of speaking or singing
说也奇怪 說也奇怪 shuō yě qí guài strangely enough / oddly enough / strange to say
中二病 zhōng èr bìng (neologism) strange behavior characteristic of a teenager going through puberty (loanword from Japanese "chūnibyō")
人生地不熟 rén shēng dì bù shú to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom) / in an unfamiliar place without friends or family
怪模怪样 怪模怪樣 guài mú guài yàng outlandish / strange-looking / grotesque syn
怪象 guài xiàng strange phenomenon
撞鬼 zhuàng guǐ to encounter a ghost or supernatural being / (coll.) to experience sth strange, eerie or unlucky
异象 異象 yì xiàng (religion) a vision / strange phenomenon
稀奇古怪 xī qí - gǔ guài (idiom) crazy / bizarre / weird / fantastic / strange syn
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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