未卜先知 — Chinese idiom
未卜先知
wèi bǔ xiān zhī
Meaning
- to foresee the future (without divination); to know beforehand through uncanny insight
Character by character
- 未wèinot yet; 8th terrestrial branch
- 卜bǔdivination, fortune-telling; prophecy
- 先xiānfirst, former, previous
- 知zhīto know, to perceive, to comprehend
Idioms sharing a character
- 乳臭未干 rǔ xiù wèi gān
- 前所未有 qián suǒ wèi yǒu
- 前所未闻 qián suǒ wèi wén
- 前缘未了 qián yuán wèi liǎo
- 宝刀未老 bǎo dāo wèi lǎo
- 悬而未决 xuán ér wèi jué
- 方兴未已 fāng xīng wèi yǐ
- 方兴未艾 fāng xīng wèi ài
- 旷古未有 kuàng gǔ wèi yǒu
- 旷古未闻 kuàng gǔ wèi wén
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