一窍不通
一竅不通Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head)
- 2.I don't understand a word (idiom)
- 3.it's all Greek to me
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Wiktionary
- 1.to not understand a thing about the topic; it's all Greek to me
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Etymology
Originally describing King Zhou of Shang, from Lüshi Chunqiu: : Where Gao You annotated as follows: : Note that in ancient China, it was popularly believed that the seat of consciousness, thought and emotion is located in one's heart, in other words, the heart governs the mind, as reflected in Mencius' assertion, "The function of the heart is to think".
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Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Characters
Example sentences
我对此一窍不通。
This is Greek to me.
我对此一窍不通。
It's all Greek to me.
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