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- not to know
- unaware
- unknowingly
- fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
- to know nothing about the beginning, the middle or the end
- to know nothing at all
- lit. to eat without tasting the food
- worried or downhearted (idiom)
- forgetting the fate of Ding and Dong (idiom)
- unheeding the lessons of the past
Trad. 不知不覺
- (idiom) unconsciously; unwittingly
Trad. 不知凡幾
- one can't tell how many
- numerous similar cases
- unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom)
- not to know what's good for one
- unable to recognize others' good intentions
Trad. 不知就裡
- unaware of the inner workings
- naive
- unwitting
- to not know what sb is driving at
- to be unintelligible
- (idiom) to not know the reason
- (idiom) to not know what to do
- not knowing what to do (idiom); at one's wits' end
- embarrassed and at a complete loss
Trad. 不知所謂
- nonsense
- nonsensical
- incomprehensible
- to make no sense
Trad. 不知痛癢
- numb
- unfeeling
- indifferent
- inconsequential
Trad. 不知輕重
- lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things
- naive
- doesn't know who's who
- no sense of priorities
Trad. 不知進退
- not knowing when to come or leave (idiom); with no sense of propriety
- to go astray and to not know how to get back on the right path (idiom)
Trad. 渾然不知
- to be totally oblivious (to sth)
- to have no idea about sth
- One who does not know is not guilty
- If one does not know any better, one cannot be held responsible
Trad. 一問三不知
- lit. to reply "don't know" whatever the question (idiom)
- fig. absolutely no idea of what's going on
- complete ignorance
Trad. 神不知鬼不覺
- top secret
- hush-hush
- not to know the immensity of heaven and earth
- an exaggerated opinion of one's own abilities
- lit. short-lived cicada does not know the seasons; fig. to see only a small piece of the big picture
Trad. 人不知鬼不覺
- in absolute secrecy
- one may know a person for a long time without understanding his true nature (idiom)
- to live in plenty without appreciating it (idiom); not to know when one is well off
Trad. 飽人不知餓人飢
- The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
Trad. 飽漢不知餓漢飢
- The well-fed cannot know how the starving suffer (idiom).
Trad. 不當家不知柴米貴
- a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom)
- to know the first, but not know the second (idiom); only partial information
- (saying) to know that it is so but not why it is so