máng

blind

Losing  one's sight  also provides the pronunciation

Components
亡 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

wáng

  

death

目 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

eye

Evolution

盲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
盲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

máng

blind; unperceptive, shortsighted

Most common words with 盲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

盲目

blind

blind

盲人

blind person

文盲

illiterate

盲点

blind spot

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤ<r>aŋ

maeng

máng

blind


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 7.0479% of movies

2207th most common character in movies

2079th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+76F2

Shuowen

“盲,目無牟子。从目,亡聲。”


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