不识庐山真面目 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 不識廬山真面目 bùshílúshānzhēnmiànmù ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˊ ㄌㄨˊ ㄕㄢ ㄓㄣ ㄇㄧㄢˋ ㄇㄨˋ lit. not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain (idiom) fig. can't see the forest for the trees Character by character 不(bù)no 识(shí)know 庐(lú)surname Lu 山(shān)surname Shan 真(zhēn)really 面(miàn)face 目(mù)eye A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0