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愚昧

yú mèi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

愚昧 (yú mèi) means "ignorant; uneducated; ignorance". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 愚昧 means

1. ignorant; uneducated
2. ignorance

The characters in 愚昧

• 愚yúto be stupid; to cheat or deceive; me or I (modest)
• 昧mèito conceal; dark

Example sentences

• 愚昧始终是危险的。
  Ignorance is always dangerous.
• 世上的罪恶差不多总是由愚昧无知造成的。
  Shìshàng de zuì'è chàbuduō zǒngshì yóu yúmèiwúzhī zàochéng de.
  The world's evil almost always comes from ignorance.
• 智慧高的人听闻「道」，会努力实践；中等智慧的人听闻「道」，会半信半疑；愚昧的人听闻「道」，则会嘲笑它。「道」若不被嘲笑，就称不上真正的道。
  Those of high wisdom, when they hear the "Way", strive to practice it; those of moderate wisdom, when they hear the "Way", are half-believing and half-doubting; the ignorant, when they hear the "Way", mock it. If the "Way" is not mocked, it cannot be called the true "Way".

Words starting with 愚昧

• 愚昧无知yú mèi wú zhīstupid and ignorant (idiom)

Sounds the same

Read yú mèi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 揄袂to walk with the hands in one's sleeves

Where 愚昧 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yòu–yǔ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yú mèi correctly.
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