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文盲

wén máng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

文盲 (wén máng) means "illiterate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 文盲 means

1. illiterate

The characters in 文盲

• 文wénlanguage; culture; writing
• 盲mángblind

Example sentences

• 汤姆真的是个文盲吗？
  Tāngmǔ zhēn de shì gè wénmáng ma?
  Is Tom illiterate?
• 那个国家三分之一的人口是文盲。
  Nàge guójiā sānfēnzhīyī de rénkǒu shì wénmáng.
  One third of the population of that country cannot read.
• 人们很容易将能源和电力小组委员会的大多数成员描述为笨蛋。他们散布石油和煤炭公司炮制的虚假信息，以最大限度地减少全球气候变迁的重要性，被称为科学文盲。
  One can easily characterize a majority of the energy and power subcommittee members as nincompoops — scientific illiterates who spread misinformation crafted by oil and coal companies in order to minimize the significance of global climate change.

Words containing 文盲

• 半文盲bàn wén mángsemiliterate

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