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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「不知所以」.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「不知所以」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

With: reason. I don’t understand why this is the case. Means that the reason is unknown.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù zhī suǒ yǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bat1 ji1 so2 yi5

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