The young man knows nothing of the ways of the world.
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谙 is literary, meaning to be thoroughly familiar with something, usually in 谙熟 or 熟谙. The line 风景旧曾谙 ('the scenery I knew so well of old') is its best-loved appearance.
The speech radical in its compact left-side form, from 言. Knowing something well once meant being able to recite and discuss it, so the speech radical marks this familiarity word. It groups 谙 with 识 and 谈.
