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Jyutping bat1 sik1 zi6
Pinyin bù shí zì

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. illiterate
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
  1. Mandarin
    他是个孤儿,而且不识字。
    他是個孤兒,而且不識字。
    tā shì gè gū ér , ér qiě bù shí zì 。
    • He was an orphan and illiterate.
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    不受教育的人,因为不识字,上人的当。受教育的人,因为识了字,上印刷品的当。
    不受教育的人,因為不識字,上人的當。受教育的人,因為識了字,上印刷品的當。
    bù shòu jiào yù de rén , yīn wèi bù shí zì , shàng rén de dāng . shòu jiào yù de rén , yīn wèi shí le zì , shàng yìn shuā pǐn de dāng .
    • Because the uneducated are illiterate, they are fooled by people. Because the educated are literate, they are fooled by printed products.
  2. Mandarin
    他是个不识字的农民。
    他是個不識字的農民。
    tā shì ge bù shí zì de nóng mín .
    • He is an illiterate peasant.
  3. Mandarin
    而他们由于长时期的封建阶级和资产阶级的统治,不识字,无文化,所以他们迫切要求一个普遍的启蒙运动,迫切要求得到他们所急需的和容易接受的文化知识和文艺作品……
    而他們由於長時期的封建階級和資產階級的統治,不識字,無文化,所以他們迫切要求一個普遍的啓蒙運動,迫切要求得到他們所急需的和容易接受的文化知識和文藝作品……
    ér tā men yóu yú cháng shí qī de fēng jiàn jiē jí hé zī chǎn jiē jí de tǒng zhì , bù shí zì , wú wén huà , suǒ yǐ tā men pò qiè yāo qiú yī ge pǔ biàn de qǐ méng yùn dòng , pò qiè yāo qiú dé dào tā men suǒ jí xū de hé róng yì jiē shòu de wén huà zhī shi hé wén yì zuò pǐn . . . . . .
    • [The workers, peasants and soldiers] are illiterate and uneducated as a result of long years of rule by the feudal and bourgeois classes, and therefore they are eagerly demanding enlightenment, education and works of literature and art which meet their urgent needs and which are easy to absorb […]