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Chinese
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eye; item; section eye; item; section; list; catalogue; table of contents; (taxonomy) order; goal; name; title |
to fail to see; not to know; not to appreciate
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| trad. (目不識丁)
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目
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不識
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丁
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| simp. (目不识丁)
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目
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不识
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丁
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| Literally: “One's eyes don't know the character 丁.”
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Etymology
According to the Old Book of Tang, the Tang-dynasty official Zhang Hongjing once scornfully said to his soldiers:
「……今天下無事，汝輩挽得兩石力弓，不如識一丁字。」
「……今天下无事，汝辈挽得两石力弓，不如识一丁字。」 - From: The Old Book of Tang, 945 CE
- “...... Jīn tiānxià wúshì, rǔbèi wǎn dé liǎng dàn lì gōng, bùrú shí yī dīng zì.”
- “ Now that the world is in peace, although you all are able to draw a bow that takes two dan of force to be drawn, that is not as good as being able to read the simplest characters like 丁.”
Pronunciation
Idiom
目不識丁
- (derogatory) to not even know the most basic characters; to be densely illiterate