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HSK
to lay down; to put down / to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside / to lower (the blinds etc)
HSK 2
blind person
HSK 6
persistently; stubbornly; blindly
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蒙* | 蒙* | *蒙
blind / dim-sighted
HSK 6
to lose one's eyesight / to become blind / blindness
HSK 7-9
(fig.) (of one's actions) blind; unthinking
HSK 7-9
silent zone / blind spot / dead space
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *瞎* | 瞎* | *瞎
blind / groundlessly / foolishly / to no purpose
HSK 7-9
to acquire literacy / to throw off blindness
regardless of what's before or after (idiom); rushing blindly into sth
to match up (employers and jobseekers, men and women seeking a partner, blind people and guide dogs etc)
(idiom) blind as a bat (figuratively) / unaware of who (or what) one is dealing with / to fail to recognize what sb a bit more perceptive would
Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk / Heixiazi (black blind man) Island
blind spot
single-blind (scientific experiment)
to drift with the waves and go with the flow (idiom); to follow the crowd blindly
a blind cat finds a dead mouse (idiom) / blind luck
to turn a blind eye
to make a wild guess / blind guess
shutter / blind
(idiom) to turn a blind eye to (sth one sees regularly)
to touch an elephant (of proverbial blind people)
blind box; mystery box
to blindly follow suit (idiom) / to imitate slavishly / to do what everyone else is doing
perspicacious person / sb with a discerning eye / sighted person (as opposed to blind)
blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
lasso pole / blind man's stick / white stick
dead end / blind alley
(term used by the blind) sighted person; person with eyesight / perceptive person; observant person
blind spot
blind testing
guide dog (for the blind) / Seeing Eye dog
double-blind (scientific experiment)
to revere everything foreign and pander to overseas powers (idiom); blind worship of foreign goods and ideas
to follow blindly / to conform slavishly / unthinking obedience
roller shutter / a blind
can't bear having grit in one's eye (idiom) / unable to put sth objectionable out of one's mind / not prepared to turn a blind eye
color-blind / color blindness
multitude of blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
to turn a blind eye
blind drunk / drunk as drunk can be
face-blind; prosopagnosic
to follow blindly (idiom) / to take as one's only guide
(coll.) sudden emergence of a person or vehicle from a blind spot (esp. into oncoming traffic)
blind spot / dead spot
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *眯* | 眯* | *眯
to blind (as with dust) / Taiwan pr. [mi3]
(idiom) to take a laissez-faire attitude; to turn a blind eye (towards sth undesirable)
Zuo Zhuan or Tsochuan, Mr Zuo's Annals or Mr Zuo's commentary on 春秋, early history c. 400 BC attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明
(coll.) are you blind or something? / look where you're going
blindness
(idiom) to turn a blind eye to; to ignore
blind drunk
night blindness
Bcc (for email) / Blind carbon copy (for email)
blind date / arranged interview to evaluate a proposed marriage partner (Taiwan pr. [xiang4 qin1]) / to be deeply attached to each other
to be deaf and blind (idiom)
(slang) person who is blindly pro-Israel
blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
prosopagnosia / face blindness
to follow blindly
night blindness
white cane (used by the blind)
lit. to have eyes but fail to recognize Mt Tai (idiom) / fig. to fail to recognize sb important or sb's great talent / to be blind to the fact
blind person
to agree blindly
(literary) blind person
moon blindness / equine recurrent uveitis
to shoot without aim (idiom); fig. to speak without thinking / firing blindly / to shoot in the air / a shot in the dark
to be blind
to act blindly without thinking (idiom)
blinding / masking (in scientific experiments)
night blindness / nyctalopia
to touch an elephant with closed eyes (idiom); to proceed blindly
blindness
blinded by greed (idiom)
blind taste testing
lit. to penetrate into a bull's horn (idiom); fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem / to bash one's head against a brick wall / a wild goose chase / a blind alley / to split hairs
day care for the elderly (abbr. of 白天托管) / to be blinded by greed / swindler (homonym of 拜託|拜托)
white cane (used by the blind)
to turn a blind eye
an illiterate / sb who has blurred vision / sb who is willfully blind
blind alley; dead end
lit. honing a bull's horn; fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem / to bash one's head against a brick wall / a wild goose chase / a blind alley / to split hairs / same as idiom 鑽牛角尖|钻牛角尖
in the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king (idiom) / (depending on the source, the last word is either 大王 or 大王)
blind shaft / winze
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *盲* | 盲* | *盲
blind
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *睺* | 睺* | *睺
(appears as phonetic ho, especially in words taken from Sanskrit) / half-blind (archaic)
has eyes but can't see (idiom); unable or unwilling to see the importance of sth / blind (to sth great)
lit. to ask a blind man the way (idiom) / fig. to seek advice from an incompetent
selective blindness caused by a ghost, whereby one fails to notice obvious dangers
partial color blindness / color weakness
night blindness (dialect)
"river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus
blind arch / false arch
Zuo Qiuming or Zuoqiu Ming (556-451), famous blind historian from Lu 魯國|鲁国 to whom the history Zuo Zhuan 左傳|左传 is attributed
Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker)
Mr Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals, attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明 / usually called Zuo Zhuan 左傳|左传
blind / blindness
(electronics) blind via
lit. to catch sparrows blindfolded (idiom) / fig. to act blindly

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