ちんぷんかんぷん
Frequency rank: 35,298. – 35,665.
- unintelligible language; incoherent language; talking nonsense; babble; gibberish; jargon; gobbledygookword usually written using kana alone
expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.); adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi); noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
Forms
- ちんぷんかんぷんFrequency rank: 35,298. – 35,665.
- 珍紛漢紛【ちんぷんかんぷん】【チンプンカンプン】
- 珍糞漢糞【ちんぷんかんぷん】【チンプンカンプン】
- チンプンカンプンFrequency rank: 43,773. – 44,486.
Wiktionary definitions (experimental)
Example sentences
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I could understand the first few sentences, but the rest of his speech was all Greek to me.
I can understand written Spanish just a little, but spoken Spanish is Greek to me.
You may be able to read the handwriting on the wall, but it is Greek to me.
Einstein's theory of relativity is Greek to me.