无知 | wú zhī | ignorant / ignorance | |
愚昧 | yú mèi | ignorant / uneducated / ignorance | |
无明 | wú míng | avidya (Buddhism) / ignorance / delusion | |
启蒙 | qǐ méng | to instruct the young / to initiate / to awake sb from ignorance / to free sb from prejudice or superstition / primer / enlightened / the Enlightenment / Western learning from the late Qing dynasty | |
愚民 | yú mín | ignorant masses / to keep the people in ignorance | |
幽明 | yōu míng | the hidden and the visible / that which can be seen and that which cannot / darkness and light / night and day / wisdom and ignorance / evil and good / the living and the dead / men and ghosts | |
才疏学浅 | cái shū xué qiǎn | (humble expr.) of humble talent and shallow learning (idiom) / Pray forgive my ignorance,... | |
一问三不知 | yī wèn sān bù zhī | lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom) / fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on / complete ignorance | |
露怯 | lòu qiè | to display one's ignorance / to make a fool of oneself by an ignorant blunder | |
瞎指挥 | xiā zhǐ huī | to give nonsensical instructions / to issue orders out of ignorance | |
学然后知不足 | xué rán hòu zhī bù zú | to learn is to know one's ignorance (the Book of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4]) | |
疑冰 | yí bīng | ignorant / doubt stemming from ignorance / (a summer insect has no word for ice, Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]) | |
装洋蒜 | zhuāng yáng suàn | to feign ignorance | |
故意无视 | willful blindness / deliberate ignorance | ||
大尾巴狼 | dà yǐ ba láng | (coll.) person who puts on an act: feigning ignorance, pretending to be solicitous, acting innocent etc |