Half understanding and half knowing
Chinese words, Pinyin is B à NJI à y à zh à, meaning to understand not deep, know little, the same "half understanding". It comes from the Miscellaneous Poems of Yanjing.
The origin of Idioms
Ning Diaoyuan's "Yanjing zashi" said: "half understand the world, a thousand different fish in a cauldron."
Analysis of Idioms
Synonym: a little understanding; antonym: insight
Idiom usage
As predicate, object, attribute; used in negative sentences.
Half understanding and half knowing
leave evil unchecked spells ruin - yǎng yōng yí huàn
one 's character is correctly criticized only after his death - gài guān shì dìng