盲

盲 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜女月山 (YVBU), four-corner 0060₁, composition ⿱亡目)

1. blind
2. unperceptive, shortsighted

• 𰇸, 𡞙, 𱦼, 𥇋, 䗈, 𨌶, 𦱋, 䈍, 𤷐

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 800, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23132
• Dae Jaweon: page 1214, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2469, character 19
• Unihan data for U+76F2

Historical forms of the character 盲
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mraːŋ) : phonetic 亡 (OC *maŋ) + semantic 目 (“eye”). Also Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : semantic 亡 (“cutting edge of a knife; to perish”) + semantic 目 (“eye”) - go blind (by losing your eye). See also 民, 臧 and 童.

盲

1. blind
2. (figurative) lacking understanding or common sense
3. person who is blind
4. person who is illiterate
5. carelessly; blindly

• 聾／聋 (lóng, “deaf”), 啞／哑 (yǎ, “mute”)

• “盲”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “盲”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 151.

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: みょう (myō)^{←みやう (myau, historical)}
• Kan-on: もう (mō, Jōyō)^{←まう (mau, historical)}
• Kun: めくら (mekura, 盲)、めしい (meshii, 盲)^{←めしひ (mesifi, めしひ, historical)}

From Middle Chinese 盲 (MC maeng).

• (Tokyo) もー (Atamadaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

盲(もう) • (mō) ^{←まう (mau)?}

1. blindness
2. blind person

• (blindness): 盲目(もうもく) (mōmoku)
• (blind person): 盲人(もうじん) (mōjin)

• (antonym(s) of “blindness”): 晴眼(せいがん) (seigan)
• (antonym(s) of “blind person”): 晴眼者(せいがんしゃ) (seigansha)

From Middle Chinese 盲 (MC maeng). Recorded as Middle Korean ᄆᆡᇰ (moyng) (Yale: moyng) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): ~
• Phonetic hangul:
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

盲

Wikisource

盲 (eumhun 소경 맹 (sogyeong maeng))

1. hanja form^? of 맹 (“blind”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

盲: Hán Nôm readings: manh

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• Nôm: manh

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999