Chinese word dictionary

殊不知

shū bù zhī · little imagined; scarcely realized

Word information

Simplified殊不知
Traditional殊不知
Pinyinshū bù zhī
Part of speechDictionary
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HSK 2.0Not listed

How to learn 殊不知

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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