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不识庐山真面目

bù shí Lú shān zhēn miàn mù

7-character word Traditional 不識廬山真面目

What 不识庐山真面目 means

1. lit. not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain (idiom)
2. fig. can't see the forest for the trees

The characters in 不识庐山真面目

• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 识shíto know; knowledge; Taiwan pr. shì
• 庐lúhut
• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 真zhēnreally; truly; indeed
• 面miànface; side; surface
• 目mùeye; (literary) to look; to regard; eye (of a net); mesh