CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

未知

wèizhī

unknown

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

unknown

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 未知 actually appears in real sentences.

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恐惧来源于未知。kǒng jù lái yuán yú wèi zhī。

Fear comes from the unknown.

每一次转会谈判都是对眼光与耐性的考验，每一个比赛日都充满未知的挑战与压力。měi yī cì zhuǎn huì tán pàn dōu shì duì yǎn guāng yǔ nài xìng de kǎo yàn， měi yí gè bǐ sài rì dōu chōng mǎn wèi zhī de tiǎo zhàn yǔ yā lì。

Every transfer window is a test of judgment and patience, and every match brings its own surprises and tension.

我们使用“ĝi”这个词，既不指男性，也不指女性，而是无性别、性别未知、或者性别无关紧要的事物。因此，我们几乎在所有情况下都可以用这个词平替“tio”，二者含义几乎一模一样。wǒ men shǐ yòng “ĝi” zhè ge cí， jì bù zhǐ nán xìng， yě bù zhǐ nǚ xìng， ér shì wú xìng bié、 xìng bié wèi zhī、 huò zhě xìng bié wú guān jǐn yào de shì wù。 yīn cǐ， wǒ men jī hū zài suǒ yǒu qíng kuàng xià dōu kě yǐ yòng zhè ge cí píng tì “tio”， èr zhě hán yì jī hū yī mú yī yàng。

We use the word "ĝi" when we are not talking about a man or a woman, but about something that has no sex or whose sex is unknown or indifferent to us. Consequently, we can almost always use this word very well in place of "tio", whose meaning is almost the same.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 未知.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 未知.

Directly before

来源于未知1
充满未知1
性别未知1

Directly after

未知的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 未知

What does 未知 mean in Chinese?

未知 (wèizhī) means unknown.

How do you pronounce 未知?

未知 is pronounced wèizhī.

Is 未知 an HSK word?

未知 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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