(shén qí) - magical, miraculous; amazing, uncanny in Mandarin
shénqíTraditional: 神奇
Translation
magical, miraculous; amazing, uncanny
Word origin
A compound of 神 (shén, god, spirit, supernatural) and 奇 (qí, strange, rare), literally divinely strange.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 神 (shén, spirit, divine) + 奇 (qí, strange, rare)
Stroke order
神
奇
Examples
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This place really is amazing.
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He knows a kind of magic.
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The effect of this medicine is remarkable.
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Nature is a wonderful thing.
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I've never seen anything so extraordinary.
神奇 (shén qí) is admiring wonder. It is what you say about something so good or so unexpected that it feels like magic: a cure that works overnight, a view over a mountain, a trick you cannot explain.
Keep it apart from 奇怪 (qí guài, strange). 奇怪 is neutral to negative and means odd or puzzling; 神奇 is always positive. 他很奇怪 means he is a weirdo, 他很神奇 means he is remarkable.
It takes 很 like any other adjective and needs 的 before a noun: 很神奇, 神奇的力量. Chinese advertising leans on it heavily, which is worth remembering: on a product label, 神奇 usually means the claim is unproven.
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