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; (taxonomy) order; goal; name; title	to stuff; to stop up; to squeeze in to stuff; to stop up; to squeeze in; strategic pass; piston; unenlightened; Serb (abbrev.); 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

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• 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

1. 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.