奇谈 (奇談)
qí tán
Pinyin

Definition

奇谈 (奇談)
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qí tán
  1. odd story
  2. exotic tale
  3. fig. ridiculous argument

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

传奇
chuán qí
  1. 1 legendary
  2. 2 fantasy saga
  3. 3 romance
  4. 4 short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
奇兵
qí bīng
  1. 1 troops appearing suddenly (in a raid or ambush)
奇怪
qí guài
  1. 1 strange
  2. 2 odd
  3. 3 to marvel
  4. 4 to be baffled
奇迹
qí jì
  1. 1 miracle
  2. 2 miraculous
  3. 3 wonder
  4. 4 marvel
好奇
hào qí
  1. 1 inquisitive
  2. 2 curious
  3. 3 inquisitiveness
  4. 4 curiosity

Idioms (17)

不足为奇
bù zú wéi qí
  1. 1 not at all surprising (idiom)
化腐朽为神奇
huà fǔ xiǔ wéi shén qí
  1. 1 lit. to change something rotten into something magical (idiom)
千奇百怪
qiān qí bǎi guài
  1. 1 fantastic oddities of every description (idiom)
啧啧称奇
zé zé chēng qí
  1. 1 to click one's tongue in wonder (idiom)
  2. 2 to be astonished
奇形怪状
qí xíng guài zhuàng
  1. 1 fantastic oddities of every description (idiom); grotesquely shaped

Sample Sentences

是啊！中国僵尸片的内容主要是从乡野奇谈来的，据说起源是”湘西赶尸”，是一种运送尸体回老家安葬的方式，贴上符箓，就是道士指挥尸体的办法。
shì a ！Zhōngguó jiāngshī piàn de nèiróng zhǔyào shì cóng xiāngyě qítán lái de ，jùshuō qǐyuán shì ”xiāngxīgǎnshī ”，shì yīzhǒng yùnsòng shītǐ huí lǎojiā ān zàng de fāngshì ，tiēshàng fúlù ，jiùshì dàoshi zhǐhuī shītǐ de bànfǎ 。
Really! Most Chinese zombie movies are from folk tales, I heard that the story originated in the practice of sending corpses back home to be buried in Xiangxi, and that the curse placed on the corpse by a Taoist monk was to direct it on its way.
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