答非所問

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Chinese

reply; answer; return
reply; answer; return; respond; echo; to answer; agree
 
(be) not; wrong; blame
(be) not; wrong; blame; Africa
 
actually; place; (nominalization prefix) to ask
trad. (答非所問)
simp. (答非所问)

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Idiom

答非所問

  1. to give an irrelevant answer to a question