Mnemonic
A deceased man's eye is forever blind. Picture the milky, glazed-over eye of a corpse — no light, no color, no sight. When someone is deceased, the first thing you notice is how blind their eyes look, staring emptily at nothing.
Additional thoughts
Death kills sight. A deceased person's eye is the perfect image of blindness — cloudy, still, unseeing. Deceased sits on top, eye on the bottom: sight extinguished by death.Quick recall
A deceased person's eye is forever blind.Details
The keyword for 盲 is blind. This kanji refers to the inability to see, representing a condition where one's eyes have lost their function. It can also be used figuratively to describe someone who is ignorant or lacks understanding in a particular area, much as "blind" is used metaphorically in English. The character conveys the idea of eyes that have been rendered useless or obscured from perceiving the world.
- On'yomi
- もう
- Kun'yomi
- めくら