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瞎子摸象
xiā​zi​mō​xiàng

one-sidedness

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
瞎子摸象 xiā​zi​mō​xiàng
one-sidedness
to mistake the part for the whole or be unable to see the big picture
parable
blind people touch an elephant (idiom from the Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃经 Dà Bān​niè​pán Jīng)

Frequency

Written text
0.058 per million

Sources

Definitions
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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)