目不识丁 — Chinese idiom
目不识丁
mù bù shí dīng
Traditional: 目不識丁
Meaning
- lit. the eye cannot recognize the letter T ; totally illiterate
Character by character
- 目mùeye; to look, to see; division, topic
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 识shíknowledge; to understand, to recognize, to know
- 丁dīngmale adult; robust, vigorous; 4th heavenly stem
Idioms sharing a character
- 一目了然 yī mù liǎo rán
- 一目十行 yī mù shí háng
- 一叶障目 yī yè zhàng mù
- 令人瞩目 lìng rén zhǔ mù
- 伤心惨目 shāng xīn cǎn mù
- 剑眉星目 jiàn méi xīng mù
- 反目成仇 fǎn mù chéng chóu
- 名目繁多 míng mù fán duō
- 巧立名目 qiǎo lì míng mù
- 怒目相向 nù mù xiāng xiàng
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