素不相识 — Chinese idiom
素不相识
sù bù xiāng shí
Traditional: 素不相識
Meaning
- to be total strangers
Character by character
- 素sùplain; white; vegetarian; formerly; normally
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 相xiāngmutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
- 识shíknowledge; to understand, to recognize, to know
Idioms sharing a character
- 尸位素餐 shī wèi sù cān
- 我行我素 wǒ xíng wǒ sù
- 素不相能 sù bù xiāng néng
- 素昧平生 sù mèi píng shēng
- 素未谋面 sù wèi móu miàn
- 素面朝天 sù miàn cháo tiān
- 艰苦朴素 jiān kǔ pǔ sù
- 轻饶素放 qīng ráo sù fàng
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一尘不染 yī chén bù rǎn
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