First opened Wednesday, February 6, 2008
不思議
ふしぎ
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
mystery, curiosity
Fushigi is contracted from 不可思議 (fuka shigi, literally “unfathomable”).
Taken apart
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Wiktionary's text doesn't split this word, so each part is one of its kanji (with the okurigana written after it), with the reading and the dictionary meaning KANJIDIC2 gives that character — a word doesn't always use every sense of its kanji.
In a sentence
私は不思議な夢を見た。
I dreamed a strange dream.
何と不思議なやつだろう。
What a strange guy!
Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.
What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “Contracted from 不(ふ)可(か)思(し)議(ぎ) (fuka shigi, literally “unfathomable”); equivalent to 不(ふ) (fu-) + 思議(しぎ) (shigi).”
Source: Wiktionary: 不思議 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.