人生地不熟
Traditional form:
人生地不熟
Pinyin (reading):
rénshēngdìbùshú
Definitions:
- to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom)
- in an unfamiliar place without friends or family
Characters:
- 人 - man, person; people
- 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
- 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 熟 - well-cooked; ripe, mature; familiar with
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