似懂非懂

Chinese

		to seem; to appear; similar to seem; to appear; similar; like; to resemble	to understand; to know	(be) not; wrong; blame (be) not; wrong; blame; Africa	to understand; to know
trad. (似懂非懂)		似	懂	非	懂
simp. ^#(似懂非懂)		似	懂	非	懂
Literally: “to seem to understand, but not to understand”.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sìdǒngfēidǒng

(Zhuyin): ㄙˋ ㄉㄨㄥˇ ㄈㄟㄉㄨㄥˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ci⁵ dung² fei¹ dung²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: sìdǒngfēidǒng
  - Zhuyin: ㄙˋ ㄉㄨㄥˇ ㄈㄟㄉㄨㄥˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sìhdǒngfeidǒng
  - Wade–Giles: ssŭ⁴-tung³-fei¹-tung³
  - Yale: sz̀-dǔng-fēi-dǔng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: syhdoongfeidoong
  - Palladius: сыдунфэйдун (sydunfɛjdun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵¹ tʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ feɪ̯⁵⁵ tʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ci⁵ dung² fei¹ dung²
  - Yale: chíh dúng fēi dúng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsi⁵ dung² fei¹ dung²
  - Guangdong Romanization: qi⁵ dung² féi¹ dung²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiː¹³ tʊŋ³⁵ fei̯⁵⁵ tʊŋ³⁵/

Idiom

似懂非懂

to not really understand; to half-understand

Synonyms

一知半解 (yīzhībànjiě)

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