盲人摸象

盲
人
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 盲人摸象

盲
máng = m + ang2
blind
盲 = 亡 + 目 : Mahatma Gandhi (m) dropped a tombstone (亡) on the Eye of Providence (目) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2) and now it's blind (盲).
盲
人
blind person
人
rén = r + (e)n2
person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
人 = 丿 + ㇏ : Mnemonic symbol: Neanderthal Man (人). Robinson Crusoe (r-) is looking for snacks in the encampment's kitchen (-en2) when he suddenly spots Neanderthal Man (人). Neanderthal Man offers him a banana (丿), but Robinson Crusoe doesn't trust the present and pokes it with a finger (㇏).
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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