ムチ – Vocabulary details

ムチ

Meanings

Adjective (な)

Noun

1. ignorance; innocence; stupidity

ごめん、それはわたしが無む知ちなだけだと思おもう。Sorry, I think that's just because I'm ignorant.

Alt. forms

Pitch accent

ム

チ

Composed of

ム

nothing; naught; nought; un-; non-

チ

wisdom; jnana (higher knowledge)

Used in vocabulary (6 in total)

ムチモウマイ

unenlightened; uneducated; ignorant

ムチノチ

knowing you know nothing

ムチモンモウ

ignorance and illiteracy

ムチハコウフク

ignorance is bliss

ムガクムチ

illiterate and ignorant

ムチグマイ

unenlightened; in the darkest ignorance; not knowing from A to B

Examples (20 in total)

私わたしはむちムチだったんだ。

I was ignorant.

彼かれのむちムチには驚おどろいた。

I was astonished by his ignorance.

だが、むちムチとは罪つみではないのか？

But is ignorance not a sin?