异想天开 / 異想天開

yì​xiǎng​tiān​kāi

whimsical

to indulge in wild fantasy; to have a bizarre and unrealistic idea

异 (literal) → 异/異 · yì · unusual 想 (literal) → 想 · xiǎng · thought 天 (literal) → 天 · tiān · sky 开 (literal) → 开/開 · kāi · to open

Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

created sense May 20, 2026, 07:57 PM