{"path":"/entry/76404","title":"目不识丁 / 目不識丁 (mù bù shí dīng) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"目不识丁 / 目不識丁 (mù bù shí dīng): literally the eye cannot recognize the letter T (idiom) · totally illiterate. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":76404,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["目不识丁"],"TRADITIONAL":["目不識丁"]}},"phonetic":"mù bù shí dīng","phoneticKey":"mu4 bu4 shi2 ding1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally the eye cannot recognize the letter T ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"totally illiterate","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADVERB"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"One's eyes don't know the character 丁.","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"According to the Old Book of Tang, the Tang-dynasty official Zhang Hongjing once scornfully said to his soldiers","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"「……今天下无事，汝辈挽得两石力弓，不如识一丁字。」","traditional":"「……今天下無事，汝輩挽得兩石力弓，不如識一丁字。」"},"phonetic":"“...... Jīn tiānxià wúshì, rǔbèi wǎn dé liǎng dàn lì gōng, bùrú shí yī dīng zì.”","english":"“ […] Now that the world is in peace, although you all are able to draw a bow that takes two dan [a unit of measure] of force to be drawn, that is not as good as being able to read the simplest characters like 丁.”","ref":"The Old Book of Tang, 945 CE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}