"ignorance" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 无知 無知 | ignorant / ignorance | syn | |
| 愚昧 | ignorant / uneducated / ignorance | syn | |
| 无明 無明 | avidya (Buddhism) / ignorance / delusion |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 启蒙 啟蒙 | to instruct the young / to initiate / to awake sb from ignorance / to free sb from prejudice or superstition / primer / enlightened / the Enlightenment / Western learning from the late Qing dynasty | syn | |
| 愚民 | ignorant masses / to keep the people in ignorance | ||
| 幽明 | the hidden and the visible / that which can be seen and that which cannot / darkness and light / night and day / wisdom and ignorance / evil and good / the living and the dead / men and ghosts | ||
| 才疏学浅 才疏學淺 | (humble expr.) of humble talent and shallow learning (idiom) / Pray forgive my ignorance,... | syn | |
| 一问三不知 一問三不知 | lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom) / fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on / complete ignorance | syn | |
| 露怯 | to display one's ignorance / to make a fool of oneself by an ignorant blunder | ||
| 瞎指挥 瞎指揮 | to give nonsensical instructions / to issue orders out of ignorance | ||
| 学然后知不足 學然後知不足 | to learn is to know one's ignorance (the Book of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4]) | ||
| 疑冰 | ignorant / doubt stemming from ignorance / (a summer insect has no word for ice, Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]) | ||
| 装洋蒜 裝洋蒜 | to feign ignorance | ||
| 故意无视 故意無視 | willful blindness / deliberate ignorance | ||
| 大尾巴狼 | (coll.) person who puts on an act: feigning ignorance, pretending to be solicitous, acting innocent etc | ||
| 幽明 | the hidden and the visible / that which can be seen and that which cannot / darkness and light / night and day / wisdom and ignorance / evil and good / the living and the dead / men and ghosts | ||
| 台蛙 臺蛙 | (derog.) Taiwanese / a person from Taiwan (implying naivete or ignorance regarding geopolitical and economic realities) (cf. 井底之蛙[jing3di3zhi1wa1] sb with a narrow view of the world) |