素昧平生 — Chinese idiom
素昧平生
sù mèi píng shēng
Meaning
- to have never met sb before; entirely unacquainted
Character by character
- 素sùplain; white; vegetarian; formerly; normally
- 昧mèidark, hidden, obscure
- 平píngflat, level, even; peaceful
- 生shēnglife, lifetime; birth; growth
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
- 素不相识 sù bù xiāng shí
- 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
- 愚昧无知 yú mèi wú zhī
- 拾金不昧 shí jīn bù mèi
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.