茅塞頓開 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 茅塞顿开 máosèdùnkāi ㄇㄠˊ ㄙㄜˋ ㄉㄨㄣˋ ㄎㄞ murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom) a sudden flash of insight and all is clear Character by character 茅(máo)surname Mao 塞(sè)block 頓(dùn)stop 開(kāi)open A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0