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Kanji Detail for 盲 - "blind, ignorant"

盲

  • Meaning

    盲 means "blind, ignorant." Also associated with dark.

    1. Blind - Unable to see; lacking sight.

    2. Ignorant - Without knowledge; unaware.

    3. Dark - Lacking light; obscure.

  • Words using 盲

    • 盲導犬 もうどうけん Listen guide dog; seeing-eye dog
    • 盲人 もうじん Listen blind person
    • 盲目 もうもく Listen blindness; blind (e.g. love, faith); reckless
    • 盲学校 もうがっこう Listen school for the blind
    • 盲点 もうてん Listen blind spot (on the retina); blind spot; weak point
    • 盲腸 もうちょう Listen cecum; caecum; blind gut

  • Four-character idioms with 盲

    • 無学文盲 むがくもんもう Listen ignorant and illiterate; uneducated and illiterate; uneducated and illiterate person
    • 無知文盲 むちもんもう Listen ignorance and illiteracy
    • 盲亀浮木 もうきふぼく Listen unlikely event; rare occurrence

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    • Verified meaning: blind, ignorant
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: dark

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    blind; blind man; ignoramus

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    blind; unperceptive, shortsighted

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    blind

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    blind; shortsighted; unperceptive

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Eyes without pupils. | Acting without knowing is called 盲. Such as 盲從 (following blindly) and such.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    moh(モウ) モウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    mekura(めくら) めくら

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    目 罒 (me・mehen)

  • Related Keywords

    blind ignorant dark intense swift sightless disability eye impaired perception unable unaware unseeing vision

Sentences including 盲

  • I'm color-blind.

  • I believe you have appendicitis.

  • Love is blind.

  • She went blind.

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