字 Chinese Character Wiki Wiki
Log in
  • Home
  • Search
  • Articles
  • Lists
  • Recent Changes
  • My Edits
  • Character Builder
Preferences
Theme
Characters
Phonetic
  • Dong Chinese
Read Edit View history
学然后知不足
xué​rán​hòu​zhī​bù​zú

to learn is to know one's ignorance

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
学然后知不足 學然後知不足 xué​rán​hòu​zhī​bù​zú
to learn is to know one's ignorance
The more you learn, the less you feel you know; to discover that your knowledge is incomplete only through learning. This phrase is originally from the "Book of Rites" 礼记 lǐ​jì.
CC BY-SA 4.0 Data licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0