不知轻重 — Chinese idiom
不知轻重
bù zhī qīng zhòng
Traditional: 不知輕重
Meaning
- lit. not knowing what's important ; no appreciation of the gravity of things
- naive
- doesn't know who's who
- no sense of priorities
Character by character
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 知zhīto know, to perceive, to comprehend
- 轻qīnglight, gentle; simple, easy
- 重zhòngheavy, weighty; to double, to repeat
Idioms sharing a character
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一尘不染 yī chén bù rǎn
- 一字不差 yī zì bù chà
- 一字不提 yī zì bù tí
- 一成不变 yī chéng bù biàn
- 一文不值 yī wén bù zhí
- 一毛不拔 yī máo bù bá
- 一病不起 yī bìng bù qǐ
- 一窍不通 yī qiào bù tōng
- 一笔不苟 yī bǐ bù gǒu
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