閉目塞聽

Chinese

		to close; stop up; shut to close; stop up; shut; obstruct	eye; item; section eye; item; section; list; catalogue; table of contents; order (taxonomy); goal; name; title	to stuff; to stop up; to squeeze in to stuff; to stop up; to squeeze in; strategic pass; piston; unenlightened; Serb (abbr.); Serbian	let; allow; listen let; allow; listen; hear; obey
trad. (閉目塞聽)		閉	目	塞	聽
simp. (闭目塞听)		闭	目	塞	听
Literally: “to shut one's eyes and stop one's ears”.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bìmùsètīng

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄧˋ ㄇㄨˋ ㄙㄜˋ ㄊㄧㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): bai³ muk⁶ sak¹ ting¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bìmùsètīng
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄧˋ ㄇㄨˋ ㄙㄜˋ ㄊㄧㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bìmùsèting
  - Wade–Giles: pi⁴-mu⁴-sê⁴-tʻing¹
  - Yale: bì-mù-sè-tīng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bihmuhsehting
  - Palladius: бимусэтин (bimusɛtin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi⁵¹⁻⁵³ mu⁵¹⁻⁵³ sɤ⁵¹ tʰiŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: bai³ muk⁶ sak¹ ting¹
  - Yale: bai muhk sāk tīng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: bai³ muk⁹ sak⁷ ting¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: bei³ mug⁶ seg¹ ting¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐi̯³³ mʊk̚² sɐk̚⁵ tʰɪŋ⁵⁵/

Idiom

閉目塞聽

to be out of touch with reality
- 一個閉目塞聽、同客觀外界根本絕緣的人，是無所謂認識的。 [MSC, trad.]
  一个闭目塞听、同客观外界根本绝缘的人，是无所谓认识的。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 1937, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《實踐論》 (On Practice), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
  Yī gè bìmùsètīng, tóng kèguān wàijiè gēnběn juéyuán de rén, shì wúsuǒwèi rènshi de. [Pinyin]
  For a person who shuts their eyes, stops their ears and totally cuts themselves off from the objective world there can be no such thing as knowledge.

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