"Confusing" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 扑朔迷离 | pū shuò mí lí | impossible to unravel / confusing |   |
| 芜杂 | wú zá | miscellaneous / mixed and disorderly (of writing) / disordered and confusing / mixed-up and illogical | |
| 烦 |  fán | to feel vexed / to bother / to trouble / superfluous and confusing / edgy | |
| 本末倒置 | běn mò dào zhì | lit. to invert root and branch (idiom) / fig. confusing cause and effect / to stress the incidental over the fundamental / to put the cart before the horse | |
| 迷离惝恍 | mí lí chǎng huǎng | indistinct / blurred / bewildering / confusing to the eye (idiom) | |
| 学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆 | xué ér bù sī zé wǎng , sī ér bù xué zé dài | To learn without thinking is confusing, to think without learning is dangerous (Confucius) | |
