pū​shuò​mí​lí

complicated and confusing

  • created reference approved 扑朔迷离/撲朔迷離 → 木兰诗/木蘭詩 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    扑朔迷离 / 撲朔迷離 pū​shuò​mí​lí

    木兰诗 / 木蘭詩 mù​lán​shī

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created reference approved 扑朔迷离/撲朔迷離 → 迷离扑朔/迷離撲朔 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    扑朔迷离 / 撲朔迷離 pū​shuò​mí​lí

    迷离扑朔 / 迷離撲朔 mí​lí​pū​shuò

    synonym

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

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  • created sense approved 扑朔迷离/撲朔迷離 · pū​shuò​mí​lí · complicated and confusing — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    扑朔迷离 / 撲朔迷離

    pū​shuò​mí​lí

    complicated and confusing

    (idiom) describing a situation that is complex and difficult to understand or unravel; originally used in the poem [[木兰诗|木蘭詩|mu4 lan2 shi1]] to describe how male and female rabbits are hard to tell apart when running.

    扑朔 (literal) → 扑朔/撲朔 · pū​shuò · confusing 迷离 (literal) → 迷离/迷離 · mí​lí · blurred

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

    created sense