迷不知返 — Chinese idiom
迷不知返
mí bù zhī fǎn
Meaning
- to go astray and to not know how to get back on the right path
Character by character
- 迷míto bewitch, to charm; a fan of; infatuated
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 知zhīto know, to perceive, to comprehend
- 返fǎnto restore, to return, to revert to
Idioms sharing a character
- 执迷不悟 zhí mí bù wù
- 目眩神迷 mù xuàn shén mí
- 目迷五色 mù mí wǔ sè
- 破除迷信 pò chú mí xìn
- 纸醉金迷 zhǐ zuì jīn mí
- 财迷心窍 cái mí xīn qiào
- 迷离惝恍 mí lí chǎng huǎng
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一尘不染 yī chén bù rǎn
- 一字不差 yī zì bù chà
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