盲人说象
máng​rén​shuō​xiàng

blind men describing an elephant

  • created sense approved 盲人说象/盲人說象 · máng​rén​shuō​xiàng · blind men describing an elephant — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    盲人说象 / 盲人說象

    máng​rén​shuō​xiàng

    blind men describing an elephant

    to draw conclusions from incomplete data or a narrow perspective; literal sense is blind people describing an elephant based on only touching one part of its body

    盲人 (literal) → 盲人 · máng​rén · blind person 说 (literal) → 说/說 · shuō · to say 象 (literal) → 象 · xiàng · elephant

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense