腦洞

腦洞

Chinese

		brain	cave; hole
trad. (腦洞)		腦	洞
simp. (脑洞)		脑	洞

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nǎodòng

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄠˇ ㄉㄨㄥˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nǎodòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄠˇ ㄉㄨㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nǎodòng
    • Wade–Giles: nao³-tung⁴
    • Yale: nǎu-dùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: naodonq
    • Palladius: наодун (naodun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ tʊŋ⁵¹/

Noun

腦洞

1. (neologism, slang) hole in one's brain which is filled by fanciful imagination (thus, the greater one's nǎodòng is, the more imaginative a person is or has to be)

   腦洞大開／脑洞大开  ―  nǎodòng dàkāi  ―  to greatly open up one's eyes (said of unusual, weird ideas)
   [lit. to open-wide one's hole in the brain in order to fit the imaginations in]

Derived terms

腦洞大開／脑洞大开 (nǎodòng dàkāi)

See also

• 腦補／脑补 (nǎobǔ)
• 無端聯想／无端联想