盲人摸象 Save Sign in to save words mángrénmōxiàng ㄇㄤˊ ㄖㄣˊ ㄇㄛ ㄒㄧㄤˋ blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅盘经 dàbānnièpánjīng) fig. unable to see the big picture to mistake the part for the whole unable to see the wood for the trees Character by character 盲(máng)blind 人(rén)person 摸(mō)feel with the hand 象(xiàng)elephant A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0