"Ignorance" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 台蛙 | Tái wā | (derog.) Taiwanese / a person from Taiwan (implying naivete or ignorance regarding geopolitical and economic realities) (cf. 井底之蛙[jing3di3zhi1wa1] sb with a narrow view of the world) | |
