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目睁口呆

mù zhēng kǒu dāi

4-character word Traditional 目睜口呆

What 目睁口呆 means

1. stunned
2. dumbstruck

The characters in 目睁口呆

• 目mùeye; (literary) to look; to regard; eye (of a net); mesh
• 睁zhēngto open (one's eyes)
• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…
• 呆dāifoolish; stupid; expressionless; blank; variant of 待

Sounds the same

Read mù zhēng kǒu dāi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 目怔口呆lit. eye startled, mouth struck dumb (idiom); stunned; stupefied