Chinese · Idiom Attested

神机妙算

shén jī miào suàn

In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.

Traditional: 神機妙算

Both English Tiếng Việt

Meaning · English

Planning so clever and accurate that it seems superhuman: the gift of foreseeing how things will turn out and preparing for it. Praise for a brilliant strategist; in daily talk often said in jest.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Mưu tính tài tình, liệu việc chính xác như thần: đoán trước được diễn biến và sắp đặt sẵn đâu vào đấy. Dùng để khen người giỏi mưu lược; trong lời nói thường ngày hay dùng để đùa.

Literally: godlike schemes, marvellous calculation

Examples

你真是神机妙算，他果然没来。Nǐ zhēn shì shén jī miào suàn, tā guǒrán méi lái.You called it perfectly: he didn't turn up, just as you said.

Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check

Sources & notes

Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “thần cơ diệu toán” (than-co-dieu-toan). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.

Equivalents & related

Hán-Việt cognate thần cơ diệu toán Divine devices and miraculous sums — strategy so exact it reads like prophecy. Tiếng Việt

Common questions

What does “神机妙算” mean?

Planning so clever and accurate that it seems superhuman: the gift of foreseeing how things will turn out and preparing for it. Praise for a brilliant strategist; in daily talk often said in jest. Literally: godlike schemes, marvellous calculation

Is “神机妙算” formal or informal?

神机妙算 is generally neutral.

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