有眼不识泰山
Traditional form:
有眼不識泰山
Pinyin (reading):
yǒuyǎnbùshí Tài Shān
Definitions:
- lit. to have eyes but fail to recognize Mt Tai (idiom)
- fig. to fail to recognize sb important or sb's great talent
- to be blind to the fact
Characters:
- 有 - to have, to own, to possess; to exist
- 眼 - eyelet, hole, opening
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 识 - knowledge; to understand, to recognize, to know
- 泰 - great, exalted, superior; calm; big
- 山 - mountain, hill, peak
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