神出鬼沒
shén​chū​guǐ​mò

unpredictable

  • created sense approved 神出鬼没/神出鬼沒 · shén​chū​guǐ​mò · unpredictable — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    神出鬼没 / 神出鬼沒

    shén​chū​guǐ​mò

    unpredictable

    appearing and disappearing mysteriously like a spirit or a ghost; used to describe military tactics that are elusive and swift, or actions that are unpredictable and hard to track

    神 (literal) → 神 · shén · god 出 (literal) → 出 · chū · to appear 鬼 (literal) → 鬼 · guǐ · ghost 没 (literal) → 没/沒 · mò · to vanish

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

    created sense