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Definition(s) for: 不识庐山真面目

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
不识庐山真面目 bù shí lú shān zhēn miàn mù - lit. not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain (idiom)
- fig. can't see the forest for the trees

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HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 93,285 62,806

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
不 bù- no; not so
- (bound form) not; un-
识 shí- to know
- knowledge
- Taiwan pr. [shi4]
识 zhì- to record
- to write a footnote
庐 lú- surname Lu
- Luzhou or Lu Prefecture 廬州|庐州[Lu2 Zhou1], a prefecture between the 6th and 13th centuries in present-day Anhui
- Mount Lu 廬山|庐山[Lu2 Shan1] in Jiangxi Province
庐 lú- hut
山 shān- surname Shan
山 shān- mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4])
- (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
真 zhēn- really
- truly
- indeed
- real
- true
- genuine
面 miàn- face
- side
- surface
- aspect
- top
- classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc
面 miàn- variant of 麵|面[mian4]
面 miàn- flour
- noodles
- (of food) soft (not crunchy)
- (slang) (of a person) ineffectual
- spineless
目 mù- eye
- (literary) to look; to regard
- eye (of a net); mesh
- mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4])
- item; section
- list; catalogue
- (taxonomy) order
- name; title

Other Words Containing 不识庐山真面目

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