"Ignorant" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 盲目 | máng mù | blind / blindly / ignorant / lacking understanding |   |
| 无知 | wú zhī | ignorant / ignorance | |
| 愚昧 | yú mèi | ignorant / uneducated / ignorance | |
| 暗 |  àn | (literary) to close (a door) / to eclipse / confused / ignorant (variant of 暗[an4]) / dark (variant of 暗[an4]) | |
| 懵懂 | měng dǒng | confused / ignorant | |
| 懵懵懂懂 | měng měng dǒng dǒng | confused / ignorant | |
| 蒙昧 | méng mèi | uncultured / uncivilized / God-forsaken / ignorant / illiterate | |
| 蒙 | méng | to cover / ignorant / to suffer (misfortune) / to receive (a favor) / to cheat | |
| 侗 | tóng | ignorant | |
| 蚩 | chī | ignorant / worm | |
| 倥 | kōng | ignorant / blank-minded | |
| 褦 | nài | ignorant / sun hat | |
| 蒙昧无知 | méng mèi wú zhī | benighted (idiom) / ignorant | |
| 一丁不识 | yī dīng bù shí | illiterate / ignorant | |
| 倥侗 | kōng tóng | ignorant / unenlightened | |
| 俭腹 | jiǎn fù | lacking in knowledge / ignorant | |
| 孤陋 | gū lòu | ignorant / ill-informed | |
| 愚蒙 | yú méng | ignorant / stupid | |
| 疑冰 | yí bīng | ignorant / doubt stemming from ignorance / (a summer insect has no word for ice, Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]) | |
| 一无所知 | yī wú suǒ zhī | (idiom) not knowing anything at all / completely ignorant | |
| 匹夫 | pǐ fū | ordinary man / ignorant person / coarse fellow | |
| 不学无术 | bù xué wú shù | without learning or skills (idiom) / ignorant and incompetent | |
| 愚民 | yú mín | ignorant masses / to keep the people in ignorance | |
| 愚昧无知 | yú mèi wú zhī | stupid and ignorant (idiom) | |
| 坐井观天 | zuò jǐng guān tiān | lit. to view the sky from the bottom of a well (idiom) / ignorant and narrow-minded | |
| 一团漆黑 | yī tuán qī hēi | pitch-dark / (fig.) completely in the dark / totally ignorant of / (fig.) grim / beyond salvation | |
| 露怯 | lòu qiè | to display one's ignorance / to make a fool of oneself by an ignorant blunder | |
| 愚顽 | yú wán | ignorant and stubborn | |
| 妄人 | wàng rén | presumptuous and ignorant person | |
| 孤陋寡闻 | gū lòu guǎ wén | ignorant and inexperienced / ill-informed and narrow-minded | |
| 如堕烟雾 | rú duò yān wù | as if degenerating into smoke (idiom) / ignorant and unable to see where things are heading | |
| 不辨菽麦 | bù biàn shū mài | lit. cannot tell beans from wheat (idiom) / fig. ignorant of practical matters | |
| 科盲 | kē máng | person who is ignorant about science and technology / scientific illiteracy | |
| 三个臭皮匠，合成一个诸葛亮 | sān gè chòu pí jiang , hé chéng yī gè Zhū gě Liàng | lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom) / fig. collective wisdom | |
| 三个臭皮匠，赛过一个诸葛亮 | sān gè chòu pí jiang , sài guò yī gè Zhū gě Liàng | lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom) / fig. collective wisdom / wisdom of the masses exceeds that of any individual | |
| 三个臭皮匠，赛过诸葛亮 | sān gè chòu pí jiang , sài guò Zhū gě Liàng | lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom) / fig. collective wisdom / wisdom of the masses exceeds that of any individual | |
| 三个臭皮匠，顶个诸葛亮 | sān gè chòu pí jiang , dǐng gè Zhū gě Liàng | lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom) / fig. collective wisdom / wisdom of the masses exceeds that of any individual | |
| 大愚 | dà yú | idiot / ignorant fool | |
| 愚懦 | yú nuò | ignorant and timid | |
| 愚陋 | yú lòu | ignorant and backward | |
| 戆督 | gàng dū | stupid, ignorant (Wu dialect) | |
| 童蒙 | tóng méng | young and ignorant / ignorant and uneducated | |
| 素质差 | sù zhì chà | so uneducated! / so ignorant! | |
| 聋聩 | lóng kuì | deaf / fig. stupid and ignorant | |
| 蒙求 | méng qiú | (traditional title of first readers) / primary education / teaching the ignorant / light to the barbarian | |
| 愚弱 | yú ruò | ignorant and feeble | |
| 兼听则明，偏信则暗 | jiān tīng zé míng , piān xìn zé àn | listen to both sides and you will be enlightened / heed only one side and you will remain ignorant (idiom) | |
