不省人事
bù xǐng rén shì
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Completely unconscious; out cold. Used for someone who has fainted, been knocked out or is dead drunk.
Mê man, không còn biết gì nữa. Dùng cho người bị ngất, bị đánh gục hoặc say đến mức không biết trời đất.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 061 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): etymology of “bất tỉnh nhân sự” = 不省人事 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “bất tỉnh nhân sự” (bat-tinh-nhan-su). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “不省人事” mean?
Completely unconscious; out cold. Used for someone who has fainted, been knocked out or is dead drunk. Literally: not aware of human affairs
Is “不省人事” formal or informal?
不省人事 is generally neutral.