半夜里吃黄瓜，不知头尾半夜里吃黃瓜，不知頭尾半夜里吃黃瓜，不知頭尾

eating a cucumber in the middle of the night: not knowing head from tail

Saying俗语俗語

Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now

Meaning: A variant of 半夜摸黄瓜 (groping for a cucumber in the dark). It means not knowing a matter from start to finish.
Wordplay: 头尾 (tóuwěi) means both the two ends of the cucumber and the beginning and end of an affair.

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Simplified: 半夜里吃黄瓜，不知头尾
Traditional (Taiwan): 半夜里吃黃瓜，不知頭尾
Pinyin: bànyè li chī huángguā, bùzhī tóuwěi
Pinyin (Taiwan): bànyè lǐ chī huángguā, bùzhī tóuwěi
Bopomofo: ㄅㄢˋ ㄧㄝˋ ㄌㄧˇ ㄔㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄍㄨㄚ，ㄅㄨˋ ㄓㄊㄡˊ ㄨㄟˇ

Written with HSK 5 vocabulary, at CEFR level B2.

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