不识时务 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 不識時務 bùshíshíwù ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˊ ㄕˊ ㄨˋ 男 女 to show no understanding of the times (idiom) cannot adapt to current circumstances not amenable to reason Character by character 不(bù)no 识(shí)know 时(shí)surname Shi 务(wù)affair A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0