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像那么回事儿

xiàng nà me huí shì rdictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
not bad at all / quite impressive
Sources & editorial notes

Reference definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source release 2026-10-27T01:55:52Z. Imported 2026-10-27. Definition wording and meaning order are retained. Recognized pronunciation references are displayed with tone marks; the original source record is available below.

Source record: cd-270893f25ebc63e0. Source SHA-256: bbc4b27f26bee1a262f4d7939667a040c7857c7fc0200a2fa7a86d3352a09eae.

Original source entry:

像那麽回事兒 像那么回事儿 [xiang4 na4 me5 hui2 shi4 r5] /not bad at all; quite impressive/

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Other forms in these source records: 像那麽回事兒

  • 像
    xiàng

    to resemble / to be like / to look as if / such as / appearance / image / portrait / image under a mapping (math.)

  • 那
    nǎ

    See the full entry for source details.

    nà

    (specifier) that / the / those (colloquial pr. [nèi]) / (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations) / then (in that case)

    nuó

    (archaic) many / beautiful / how

    Nā

    surname Na

    Nuó

    surname Nuo

  • 么
    yāo

    youngest / most junior / tiny / one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military) / one or ace on dice or dominoes / variant of 吆[yāo], to shout

    má

    exclamatory final particle

    ma

    interrogative final particle

    me

    suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼|什么[shén me], what?, indefinite 這麼|这么[zhè me] thus, etc

    Yāo

    surname Yao

  • 回
    huí

    to go back / to return / to turn back / to turn around / to reply / to answer / classifier for literary divisions (acts of a play, sections or chapters of a classic book) / classifier for occurrences or times / to curve / to return / to revolve

    Huí

    Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims)

  • 事
    shì

    matter / thing / item / work / affair / CL:件[jiàn],樁|桩[zhuāng],回[huí]

  • 儿
    ér

    child / son

    r

    non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final

Reference definitions from CC-CEDICT.