奇想天外

• 読み: きそうてんがい
• ローマ字: kisoutengai
• 漢字の分解: 奇 (ki) — strange, marvellous; 想 (sou) — thought, idea; 天 (ten) — heaven, sky; 外 (gai/soto) — outside, beyond
• 発音: /ki.soː.teŋ.ɡai/

意味

Wildly original; outlandishly bizarre; so fantastically unexpected as to seem beyond the heavens. Describes ideas or works that are startlingly unconventional.

A yojijukugo meaning something so novel and audacious that it exceeds the sky itself (天外). Used attributively as 奇想天外な and adverbially as 奇想天外に. Carries admiration and astonishment rather than pure criticism — often used to praise brilliantly creative works, inventions, or ideas whose originality defies expectation.

例文

1. 彼の奇想天外なアイデアが、この製品に革命をもたらした。
2. そのSF小説は奇想天外な世界観で読者を魅了した。
3. 奇想天外な発想こそが、新しいビジネスを生み出す原動力となる。

使い方ガイド

場面: art, literature, creativity, innovation

トーン: admiring

起源と歴史

A Japanese yojijukugo combining 奇想 (strange/wonderful idea) and 天外 (beyond the heavens). The compound evokes something so imaginative it surpasses the limits of the known world.

文化的背景

時代: Classical–Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal