辨认 (辨認)
biàn rèn
Pinyin
Definition
辨认 (辨認)
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- to recognize
- to identify
Character Decomposition
Idioms (4)
不辨菽麦
- 1 lit. cannot tell beans from wheat (idiom); fig. ignorant of practical matters
明辨是非
- 1 to distinguish right and wrong (idiom)
是非莫辨
- 1 unable to distinguish right and wrong (idiom)
真伪莫辨
- 1 can't judge true or false (idiom); unable to distinguish the genuine from the fake
- 2 not to know whether to believe (what one reads in the news)
Sample Sentences
此外,地下室里堆放着装水果用的箱子。在房间的一角,躺着一具三四十岁左右的女尸,面部有许多刀伤,身份暂时无法辨认。
There was also a stack of fruit boxes. In a corner of the room lay the corpse of a 30- or 40-year old woman. Her face was covered in stab wounds and was not readily identifiable.