不知輕重
bù​zhī​qīng​zhòng

lacking a sense of priority

  • created sense approved 不知轻重/不知輕重 · bù​zhī​qīng​zhòng · lacking a sense of priority — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    不知轻重 / 不知輕重

    bù​zhī​qīng​zhòng

    lacking a sense of priority

    literally "to not know light or heavy"; describes being unable to judge the importance or gravity of a situation, or being naive and acting without a sense of priorities

    不知 (literal) → 不知 · bù​zhī · not to know 轻重 (literal) → 轻重/輕重 · qīng​zhòng · propriety

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense