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盲

máng

HSK 6 Character

What 盲 means

1. blind

Example sentences

• 我是色盲。
  I'm color blind.
• 爱是盲目的。
  Love is blind.
• 爱情是盲目的。
  Love is blind.
• 恋爱使人盲目。
  Love is blind.
• 我姐姐是色盲。
  My sister is color blind.
• 我有个盲邻居。
  I had a neighbor who was blind.

Words starting with 盲

• 盲目máng mù(fig.) (of one's actions) blind; unthinking
• 盲人máng rénblind person
• 盲流máng liú(mainland) flow of people from the countryside into the cities…
• 盲从máng cóngto follow blindly; to conform slavishly; unthinking obedience
• 盲点máng diǎnblind spot
• 盲区máng qūblind spot
• 盲友máng yǒublind person; visually-impaired person
• 盲品máng pǐnblind taste testing
• 盲孔máng kǒng(electronics) blind via
• 盲字máng zìbraille
• 盲打máng dǎto touch-type
• 盲文máng wénbraille; literature in braille
• 盲法máng fǎblinding; masking (in scientific experiments)
• 盲测máng cèblind testing
• 盲猜máng cāito hazard a guess
• 盲盒máng héblind box; mystery box
• 盲端máng duāncecum (start of the colon, linking it to small intestine)
• 盲胞máng bāovisually impaired person (Tw)
• 盲道máng dàopath for the visually impaired (made with tactile paving)
• 盲人摸象máng rén mō xiàngblind people touch an elephant…
• 盲人门球máng rén mén qiúgoalball (Paralympic sport)
• 盲道砖máng dào zhuāntactile paving tile
• 盲囊máng nángcecum (anatomy); appendix
• 盲肠máng chángappendix (anatomy); cecum

Words containing 盲

• 文盲wén mángilliterate
• 扫盲sǎo mángto wipe out illiteracy
• 色盲sè mángcolor-blind; color blindness
• 单盲dān mángsingle-blind (scientific experiment)
• 夜盲yè mángnight blindness
• 法盲fǎ mángperson who has no understanding of legal matters
• 目盲mù mángblind; blindness
• 科盲kē mángperson who is ignorant about science and technology; scientific illiteracy
• 脱盲tuō mángto acquire literacy; to throw off blindness
• 脸盲liǎn mángface-blind; prosopagnosic
• 视盲shì mángblindness
• 双盲shuāng mángdouble-blind (scientific experiment)
• 半文盲bàn wén mángsemiliterate
• 夜盲症yè máng zhèngnight blindness; nyctalopia
• 导盲道dǎo máng dào(Taiwan) path for the visually impaired (made with tactile paving)
• 月盲症yuè máng zhèngmoon blindness; equine recurrent uveitis
• 河盲症hé máng zhèngriver blindness; onchocerciasis
• 脸盲症liǎn máng zhèngprosopagnosia; face blindness
• 问道于盲wèn dào yú mánglit. to ask a blind man the way (idiom); fig. to seek advice from an incompetent
• 众盲摸象zhòng máng mō xiàngmultitude of blind people touch an elephant…
• 导盲砖dǎo máng zhuān(Taiwan) tactile paving tile
• 雀盲què mángnight blindness
• 雀盲眼qiǎo mang yǎnnight blindness (dialect)
• 导盲犬dǎo máng quǎnguide dog (for the blind); Seeing Eye dog

Characters built on 亡

These share the phonetic component 亡 (wáng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 望wàngfull moon; to hope; to expect
• 忘wàngto forget; to overlook; to neglect
• 忙mángbusy; hurriedly; to hurry
• 芒mángawn (of cereals); arista (of grain); tip (of a blade)
• 妄wàngabsurd; fantastic; presumptuous
• 氓mángused in 流氓
• 邙MángMt Mang at Luoyang in Henan, with many Han, Wei and Jin dynasty royal tombs

Characters that look like 盲

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 言yánwords; speech; to say
• 室shìroom; work unit; grave
• 首shǒuhead; chief; first (occasion, thing etc)
• 官guāngovernment official; governmental; official
• 宫gōngpalace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment)
• 肓huāngregion between heart and diaphragm

Sounds the same

Read máng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 忙busy; hurriedly; to hurry
• 芒awn (of cereals); arista (of grain); tip (of a blade)
• 氓used in 流氓
• 茫vast, with no clear boundary; fig. hazy; indistinct
• 尨shaggy dog; striped
• 硭crude saltpeter
• 铓sharp point; point of sword
• 哤jargon
• 杗ridge-pole in roof
• 杧used in 杧果
• 牻(literary) black and white cattle
• 駹black horse with a white face