少见多怪 — Chinese idiom

Meaning

• (lit.) a person who has seen little of the world will be astonished by certain things
• (fig.) to be taken aback by sth because of one's lack of sophistication; naive; unworldly

Character by character

• 少shǎofew, little; less; inadequate
• 见jiànto see, to observe, to meet, to appear
• 多duōmuch, many, multi-; more than, over
• 怪guàiunusual, strange, peculiar

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
• 少不更事 shào bù gēng shì
• 年少无知 nián shào wú zhī
• 疏谋少略 shū móu shǎo lüè
• 积少成多 jī shǎo chéng duō
• 一孔之见 yī kǒng zhī jiàn

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