故弄玄虛 gù nòng xuán xū

DEFINITIONS

  1. deliberately mystifying
  2. to make sth unnecessarily complicated

CHARACTERS

故 gù
HSK 3
ancient, old; reason, because
弄 nòng
HSK 4
do, play or fiddle with; alley
玄 xuán deep, profound, abstruse; KangXi radical 95
虛 xū false, worthless; empty, hollow