Read Edit View history 不识庐山真面目 bùshílúshānzhēnmiànmù can't see the forest for the trees Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 不识庐山真面目 不識廬山真面目 bùshílúshānzhēnmiànmù can't see the forest for the trees Literally "not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain"; an idiom used to describe being unable to see the whole truth or the objective reality of a situation because one is too involved in it. Frequency Written text 0.133 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
不识庐山真面目 不識廬山真面目 bùshílúshānzhēnmiànmù can't see the forest for the trees Literally "not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain"; an idiom used to describe being unable to see the whole truth or the objective reality of a situation because one is too involved in it. Frequency Written text 0.133 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)