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失明

shīmíng

“To lose one's eyesight” in Chinese is 失明 (shīmíng).

Meaning

  • to lose one's eyesight
  • to become blind
  • blindness

Example

有什么比失明更不幸的呢?

What greater misfortune is there than to go blind?

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

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Not to be confused with: 使命 (shǐmìng, mission)