Chinese symbol for “unwitting”

不知就里

bù zhī jiù lǐ

Traditional: 不知就裡

unaware of the inner workings; naive; unwitting

The closest CC-CEDICT match for unwitting is 不知就里 (bù zhī jiù lǐ), defined as: unaware of the inner workings; naive; unwitting.

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Characters and stroke order

不 bù

no, not, un-; negative prefix

radical 1 ⼀ · 4 strokes

知 zhī

to know, to perceive, to comprehend

radical 111 ⽮ · 8 strokes

就 jiù

just, simply; to go to; to approach, near

radical 43 ⼪ · 12 strokes

里 lǐ

unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane

radical 166 ⾥ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

裡 lǐ

Related words

Other words that share a character with 不知就里.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
不是	bù shì	no; is not
不能	bù néng	cannot; must not
不会 (不會)	bù huì	improbable; unlikely
不过 (不過)	bù guò	only; merely
不同	bù tóng	different; distinct
知道	zhī dào	to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5]
知识 (知識)	zhī shi	knowledge; 门 (mén)
通知	tōng zhī	to notify; to inform
就是	jiù shì	exactly; precisely; only; simply; just
这里 (這裏)	zhè lǐ	variant of 这里 (zhè lǐ)

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.