不识庐山真面目
Traditional form:
不識廬山真面目
Pinyin (reading):
bùshí Lúshānzhēnmiànmù
Definitions:
- lit. not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain (idiom)
- fig. can't see the forest for the trees
Characters:
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 识 - knowledge; to understand, to recognize, to know
- 庐 - hut, cottage; the name of a mountain
- 山 - mountain, hill, peak
- 真 - real, actual, true, genuine
- 面 - face; surface, side; plane, dimension
- 目 - eye; to look, to see; division, topic
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