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HSK
inquisitive / curious / inquisitiveness / curiosity
HSK 3
magical / mystical / miraculous
HSK 5
legendary / fantasy saga / romance / short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
HSK 7-9
to be amazed / to be surprised / to wonder
HSK 7-9
novel; new; exotic
HSK 7-9
rare / strange
HSK 7-9
odd; bizarre
HSK 7-9
Pope Vigilius (in office 537-555) / phonetic -vich or -wich in Russian names
Karachi (Pakistan)
The Chronicles of Narnia, children's stories by C.S. Lewis
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter
Peppa, from Peppa Pig cartoon
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *奇* | 奇* | *奇
odd (number)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *奇* | 奇* | *奇
strange / odd / weird / wonderful / surprisingly / unusually
Mickey or Mitch (name)
to hunt for novelty / to seek novelty
variant of 稀奇
Dodge, US automobile brand, division of Chrysler LLC
ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about
Gucci (brand)
to click one's tongue in wonder (idiom) / to be astonished
Jankovic / Yankovic / Yankovich / Jelena Jankovic (1985-), Serbian tennis player
Juan Antonio Samaranch (1920-2010), Spanish Olympic official, president of International Olympic Committee 1980-2001
extraordinary / exceptional / unusual
lit. to change something rotten into something magical (idiom)
rare / strange
not at all surprising (idiom)
Ilyich or Illich (name)
Christchurch (New Zealand city)
(Newt) Gingrich
Petrovich (name)
Vasilievich (name)
Karadžić (Serbian surname) / Radovan Karadžić (1945–), former Bosnian Serb leader, convicted war criminal / Vuk Karadžić (1787–1864), Serbian linguist
to hoard and profiteer / to speculate
sygyt (overtone singing)
to hoard / to speculate / profiteering
magnificent / precious
strange and paradoxical
Aqchi Nahiyisi or Aheqi County in Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture 克孜勒蘇柯爾克孜自治州|克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州, Xinjiang
(loanword) kimchi
Andrija Mohorovichich or Mohorovičić (1857-1936), Croatian geologist and seismologist who discovered the Mohorovichich discontinuity or Moho
to slap the table in amazement (idiom); wonderful! / amazing!
cookie (loanword via Cantonese 曲奇 kuk1 kei4)
Anchorage (city in Alaska)
husky (sled dog)
urban legend (translation of recent Western term) / story or theory circulated as true / same as 都會傳奇|都会传奇
Goran Hadžić (1958-2016), Croatian Serb leader until 1994, indicted war criminal
Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part I), first of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初
fortune cookie
to cluck one's tongue in wonder
Mladić (name) / Ratko Mladić (1942-), army chief of Bosnian Serbs 1965-1996 and convicted war criminal
Viktor Feyedov Yanukovych (1950-) Ukrainian politician
to seek unusual scenery or places
Sarkozy (name) / Nicolas Sarkozy (1955-), president of France 2007-2012
urban legend (translation of recent Western term) / story or theory circulated as true / same as 都市傳奇|都市传奇
Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part II), second of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初
(loanword) kitsch, in a sense that originates in the writing of Milan Kundera: getting emotional about sth due to the influence of social conditioning
Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution
South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands
Tadich (name) / Boris Tadić (1958-), Serbian politician, president 2004-2012
Urgench, city in Uzbekistan
to overturn empty convention, and display originality (idiom); new and different ideas
Jelena Jankovic (1985-), Serbian tennis player
Ermitazh or Hermitage museum in St Peterburg
(loanword) (film) montage
Hufflepuff (Harry Potter)
The Name of the Rose, 1986 movie based on the novel by Umberto Eco


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