玄げん妙みょう

na-adjective, noun

abstruse; mysterious; occult

Describes something profound and difficult to grasp, often with a mystical or esoteric nuance. Relatively literary and not an everyday word.

• その哲てつ学がく書しょは玄げん妙みょうな理り論ろんで満みちている。

  That philosophy book is full of abstruse theories.

• 彼かれの言こと葉ばには玄げん妙みょうなところがあって、すぐには理り解かいできない。

  His words have a mysterious quality that makes them hard to understand right away.