Someone is knocking on the door.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
不知
not to know
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
not to know
02
unaware
03
unknowingly
04
fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 不知 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 不知 appears in 38 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
It is not clear what the writer is trying to say.
He seems like he doesn't understand this at all.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 不知.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 不知.
Directly before
- 我不知2
- 但不知2
- 全不知1
- 手表不知1
- 引擎不知1
Directly after
- 不知该4
- 不知如何4
- 不知怎3
- 不知为何3
- 不知如何是好2
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 不知
What does 不知 mean in Chinese?
不知 (bùzhī) means not to know.
How do you pronounce 不知?
不知 is pronounced bùzhī.
Is 不知 an HSK word?
不知 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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