瞎子摸象

瞎
子
摸
象
blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees

Characters and words in 瞎子摸象

瞎
xia̅ = xi + a1
blind / groundlessly / foolishly / to no purpose
瞎 = 害 + 目 : Calamity Jane (害) surprises the Eye of Providence (目) for no specific reason (瞎) in front of the ashram (a1) by blinding (瞎) it from behind with her hands. The Eye of Providence takes a wild guess (瞎) and exclaims that it must be Marie Curie (xi) blinding him, which makes Calamity Jane very jealous.
瞎
子
blind person
子
zǐ = z + Ø3
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat / Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / sub-
子 = 了 + 一 : Zorro wants to eat an egg in the space station, and he already put it in a prize cup, as he has no egg cup. He also lacks a spoon, so he uses a big flute to crush the egg open.
子
zi = z + Ø5
(noun suffix)
摸
mo̅ = m + o1
to feel with the hand / to touch / to stroke / to grope / to steal / to abstract
摸 = 扌 + 莫 : Mozart (莫) finds Mahatma Gandhi (m) lying motionless in front of the observatory (o1), and since there is none who (莫) is allowed to touch him he uses a toy claw (扌) to feel (摸) his pulse.
摸
mó = m + o2
variant of 摹[mo2]
摸
象
to touch an elephant (of proverbial blind people)
象
xiàng = xi + ang4
elephant / CL:隻|只[zhi1] / shape / form / appearance / to imitate
象 = ⺈ + 口 + 豕 : Mnemonic symbol: I already used an ordinary elephant for 勹, which is fine, because 勹 appears many times and 象 only a few times. Thus to represent 象 I'll use a locomotive from 1844's Austria, which was called "KFNB Elephant".
象 = ⺈ + 口 + 豕 : Marie Curie sees the crane and the swine fight about a single mandarin in the anglepod's bathroom. To smooth down the differences, with a locomotive she drives a whole container of mandarins in the bathroom.

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