HOW IT SOUNDS
Casual
IN A SENTENCE
彼の演説は最初のところが少し理解できたが、残りはちんぷんかんぷんだった。
I could understand the first few sentences, but the rest of his speech was all Greek to me.
from Tatoeba · bunbuku
MEANING
1
unintelligible language; incoherent language; talking nonsense; babble; gibberish; jargon; gobbledygook
noun · adjectival noun
TANGOYA ASKS
The dictionary gives ちんぷんかんぷん this one meaning.
DETAILS
Kindかな語, kana words
Frequency#13,994 most used
Writtenちんぷんかんぷん only
Can be asked asRead, Listen, Recall
Dictionary: JMdict (EDRDG), CC BY-SA 4.0 · pitch: Kanjium