少不更事 — Chinese idiom
少不更事
shào bù gēng shì
Meaning
- young and inexperienced; wet behind the ears
Character by character
- 少shàofew, little; less; inadequate
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 更gēngmore, further; to shift, to alternate; to modify
- 事shìaffair, matter, business; to serve; accident, inci
Idioms sharing a character
- 人烟稀少 rén yān xī shǎo
- 以少胜多 yǐ shǎo shèng duō
- 僧多粥少 sēng duō zhōu shǎo
- 凶多吉少 xiōng duō jí shǎo
- 寡二少双 guǎ èr shǎo shuāng
- 少见多怪 shǎo jiàn duō guài
- 年少无知 nián shào wú zhī
- 疏谋少略 shū móu shǎo lüè
- 积少成多 jī shǎo chéng duō
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
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