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失明

shī míng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

失明 (shī míng) means "to lose one's eyesight; to become blind; blindness". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 失明 means

1. to lose one's eyesight
2. to become blind
3. blindness

The characters in 失明

• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail
• 明míngbright; opposite: dark 暗; (of meaning) clear

Example sentences

• 他失明了。
  He lost his eyesight.
• 汤姆失明了。
  Tom became blind.
• 他在意外中失明了。
  He lost his eyesight in the accident.
• 他在这次事故中失明了。
  Tā zài zhè cì shìgù zhōng shīmíng le.
  He went blind in the accident.
• 有什么比失明更不幸的呢？
  Yǒu shénme bǐ shīmíng gèng bù xìng de ne?
  What greater misfortune is there than to go blind?
• 有什幺比失明更不幸的呢？
  What greater misfortune is there than to go blind?

Words starting with 失明

• 失明症shī míng zhèngblindness

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