無知無識

Chinese

		to be ignorant	to have no knowledge; to be ignorant; to have no sign to have no knowledge; to be ignorant; to have no sign; to have no trace
trad. (無知無識)		無知	無識
simp. (无知无识)		无知	无识

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wúzhīwúshí, wúzhīwúshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˊ ㄓ ㄨˊ ㄕˊ, ㄨˊ ㄓ ㄨˊ ㄕˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wúzhīwúshí
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˊ ㄓ ㄨˊ ㄕˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wújhihwúshíh
    • Wade–Giles: wu²-chih¹-wu²-shih²
    • Yale: wú-jr̄-wú-shŕ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wujywushyr
    • Palladius: учжиуши (učžiuši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ u³⁵ ʂʐ̩³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wúzhīwúshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˊ ㄓ ㄨˊ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wújhihwúshìh
    • Wade–Giles: wu²-chih¹-wu²-shih⁴
    • Yale: wú-jr̄-wú-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wujywushyh
    • Palladius: учжиуши (učžiuši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ u³⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/

Idiom

無知無識

1. to be devoid of the commonest knowledge

   • 若不聽從，就要被刀殺滅，無知無識而死。 [MSC, trad.]
     若不听从，就要被刀杀灭，无知无识而死。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 新標點和合本 (Chinese Union Version with New Punctuation), 約伯記 (Job) 36:12

     Ruò bù tīngcóng, jiù yào bèi dāo shāmiè, wúzhīwúshí ér sǐ. [Pinyin]

     But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

   • 對象都不是無知無識的愚民，他們多少也懂得一點，他們對我的談話很有興趣。 [MSC, trad.]
     对象都不是无知无识的愚民，他们多少也懂得一点，他们对我的谈话很有兴趣。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1938, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《論持久戰》 (On Protracted War), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Duìxiàng dōu bù shì wúzhīwúshí de yúmín, tāmen duōshǎo yě dǒngde yīdiǎn, tāmen duì wǒ de tánhuà hěn yǒu xìngqù. [Pinyin]

     The people I have talked to are by no means ignoramuses; they all have some understanding of what is going on and are very interested in what I have to say.