故弄玄虛 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 故弄玄虚 gùnòngxuánxū ㄍㄨˋ ㄋㄨㄥˋ ㄒㄩㄢˊ ㄒㄩ deliberately mystifying to make sth unnecessarily complicated Character by character 故(gù)happening 弄(nòng)do 玄(xuán)black 虛(xū)emptiness A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0