晦涩

Traditional (Taiwan): 晦澀

huìsè ㄏㄨㄟˋ ㄙㄜˋ

    • difficult to understand
    • cryptic

Character by character

Synonyms and antonyms

Synonyms 近义词

  • 艰涩 jiānsè
    • 文辞艰涩 the wording is abstruse
  • 隐晦 yǐnhuì
    • 隐晦的批评 veiled criticism
    • 文字隐晦难懂 the writing is obscure and hard to follow

Antonyms 反义词

  • 浅显 qiǎnxiǎn
    • 浅显易懂 plain and easy to understand
    • 语言浅显 the language is plain

Telling them apart

晦涩 describes works such as poems and music whose meaning is veiled and hard to grasp; it is not applied directly to the wording. 艰涩 describes language or writing that is hard to understand because the words themselves are difficult.

Other words read huìsè

huise with other tones

Near homophones of huise

Words with 晦涩

Ending with 晦涩

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