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Jyutping bat1 zi1 dou6
Pinyin bù zhī dào

Definitions (CC-CANTO)
  1. not knowing
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
  1. Mandarin
    我不知道。
    我不知道。
    wǒ bù zhī dào 。
    • I have no idea.
    • I don't know.
    • I do not know.
    • Dunno.
    • Don't know.
  2. Mandarin
    我不知道应该说什么才好。
    我不知道應該說什麼才好。
    wǒ bù zhī dào yīng gāi shuō shén me cái hǎo 。
    • I'm at a loss for words.
    • I just don't know what to say.
    • Words fail me.
    • I am at a loss for words.
    • I don't know what to say.
    • I don't know what I should say.
    • I have no words.
    • I am speechless.
    • I'm lost for words.
    • I can't find the words.
  3. Mandarin
    我只是不知道应该说什么而已……
    我只是不知道應該說什麼而已……
    wǒ zhǐ shì bù zhī dào yīng gāi shuō shén me ér yǐ ……
    • I just don't know what to say.
    • What should I say?
    • I simply don't know what to say...
    • I don't know what to say...
    • I simply don't know what to tell...
  4. Mandarin
    我不知道我有没有时间。
    我不知道我有沒有時間。
    wǒ bù zhī dào wǒ yǒu méi yǒu shí jiān 。
    • I don't know if I have the time.
    • I don't know if I'll have time.
    • I don't know if there is time.
    • I don't know whether I have time or not.
  5. Mandarin
    刚才我的麦克风没起作用,不知道为什么。
    剛才我的麥克風沒起作用,不知道為什麼。
    gāng cái wǒ de mài kè fēng méi qǐ zuò yòng , bù zhī dào wèi shén me 。
    • For some reason the microphone didn't work earlier.
Examples (None)
  1. 我才不知道哩!
    我才不知道哩!
Examples (粵典–words.hk)
  1. Cantonese
    我不知道该怎样下笔写这封信。(我唔知点落笔写呢封信好。)
    我不知道該怎樣下筆寫這封信。(我唔知點落筆寫呢封信好。)
    • I don't know where to start this letter.
  2. Cantonese
    假装不知道
    假裝不知道
    扮唔知
    • to pretend being ignorant
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    我不知道他是什么人。
    我不知道他是什麼人。
    wǒ bù zhī dào tā shì shén me rén .
    • I don't know what kind of person he is.
  2. Mandarin
    我不知道它是从哪里来的。
    我不知道它是從哪裏來的。
    wǒ bù zhī dào tā shì cóng nǎ lǐ lái de .
    • I didn't know where it came from.
  3. Mandarin
    别的国度里怎样,我不知道。单知道诺威人Hamsun有一本小说叫《饥饿》,粗野的口吻是很多的,但我并不见这一类话。
    別的國度裏怎樣,我不知道。單知道諾威人Hamsun有一本小説叫《飢餓》,粗野的口吻是很多的,但我並不見這一類話。
    bié de guó dù lǐ zěn yàng , wǒ bù zhī dào . dān zhī dào nuò wēi rén Hamsun yǒu yī běn xiǎo shuō jiào “ jī è ” , cū yě de kǒu wěn shì hěn duō de , dàn wǒ bìng bù jiàn zhè yī lèi huà .
    • I don't know what it's like in other countries. I only know that a Norwegian [named] Hamsun has [written] a novel called Hunger [in which] vulgar speech is plenty, but I have by no means seen this kind of thing [referring to 他媽的/他妈的 (tāmāde)].
  4. Mandarin
    资产阶级顽固派完全不知道历史的变化,其知识的贫乏几等于零。
    資產階級頑固派完全不知道歷史的變化,其知識的貧乏幾等於零。
    zī chǎn jiē jí wán gù pài wán quán bù zhī dào lì shǐ de biàn huà , qí zhī shi de pín fá jī děng yú líng .
    • The bourgeois die-hards have no understanding whatsoever of historical change; their knowledge is so poor that it is practically nonexistent.
  5. Mandarin
    我那时并不知道这所谓猹的是怎么一件东西——便是现在也不知道——只是无端地觉得状如小狗而很凶猛。
    我那時並不知道這所謂猹的是怎麼一件東西——便是現在也不知道——只是無端地覺得狀如小狗而很兇猛。
    wǒ nà shí bìng bù zhī dào zhè suǒ wèi chá de shì zěn me yī jiàn dōng xī — biàn shì xiàn zài yě bù zhī dào — zhǐ shì wú duān dì jué de zhuàng rú xiǎo gǒu ér hěn xiōng měng .
    • Back then I did not know what this so-called cha was—which I still do not know even now—but just thought that it had a shape like a little dog and was somehow ferocious for no reason.