Fantastic - Kisoutengai

Japanese: 奇想天外 - きそうてんがい
Fantastic - Kisoutengai
Something unusual and unexpected.

[Conjugation] --na/-da.

[Example] It's a truly bizarre trick. [Edogawa Ranpo * Oni | 1931-32]

[Example] We all lack imagination, so when something extraordinary happens in this world, we can't even imagine it. [Sono Ayako * Garden of Cold Winds | 1976]

[Explanation] It is an abbreviation of "Kiso Tengai yori ochitsu (An idea that ordinary people would never think of suddenly comes to mind)." "Kiso" means an unusual idea. "Tengai" means outside of heaven.

Source: Dictionary of Four-character Idioms About Dictionary of Four-character Idioms Information

Japanese:
思いもよらないような奇抜なこと。

[活用] ―な・―だ。

[使用例] 実に奇想天外のトリックなんだ[江戸川乱歩*鬼|1931~32]

[使用例] われわれは、皆、想像力が乏しいから、この世で奇想天外なことが行われている時には、全く想像もつかないものなんですよ[曾野綾子*木枯しの庭|1976]

[解説] 「奇想天外より落つ(ふつうの人の思いもつかないような考えがふと浮かぶ)」の略。「奇想」は奇抜な考え。「天外」は天の外という意味。

出典 四字熟語を知る辞典四字熟語を知る辞典について 情報

<<:  Equipment - Equipment

>>:  Crime of obtaining counterfeit currency

Recommend

Change in face value

…After this amendment, many high-priced companies...

Saburo Ogata

...The name was probably chosen because the hair ...

Neue Zürcher Zeitung (English)

A world-famous, high-quality newspaper published i...

Nine sounds - Kyuonra

…An East Asian metal percussion instrument. It is...

Kashu [river] - Kashu

...Its Chinese name is the Yili River. The Tekes ...

Barrymore, J.

…American family of actors. Born to British actor...

Random - Shindai

〘noun〙 (Perhaps a variation of "shintai"...

A request - Yosesata

A type of illegal judicial action characteristic o...

Hazenoki - Hazenoki

A deciduous tall tree of the Anacardiaceae family...

Greenwood, J.

… In England, it was the Puritans who inherited t...

Hirotaka Sakabe - Hirotaka Sakabe

Year of death: 24th August 1824 (16th September 18...

Bandits

…Both Hui and Dang mean “friends,” and originally...

Nitroguanidine

A nitramine compound first synthesized in 1877. It...

Aloe bainesii (English spelling) Aloe bainesii

…[Hiroshi Yuasa] [Aya Nitta]. … *Some of the term...

Calligraphy - Shoron

〘Noun〙① A discussion written in a book. ※Joruri: S...