bàn dǒng bù dǒngdictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
to not fully understand / to only partly understand
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Original source entry:

半懂不懂 半懂不懂 [ban4 dong3 bu4 dong3] /to not fully understand/to only partly understand/

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半懂不懂
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