盲人摸象 (máng rén mō xiàng) | Meaning: blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra); fig. unable to see the big picture | Chinese Idiom with Pinyin & Origin

lit. to see a leopard through a narrow tube (idiom); fig. to miss the big picture管中窥豹guǎn zhōng kuī bào

lit. to view the sky from the bottom of a well (idiom); ignorant and narrow-minded坐井观天zuò jǐng guān tiān

unilateral · one-sided片面piàn miàn

take a narrow view of things · look at the sky through a bamboo tube and measure the sea with a conch shell · restricted in vision and shallow in understanding管窥蠡测guǎn kuī lǐ cè

blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra); fig. unable to see the big picture · to mistake the part for the whole · unable to see the wood for the trees

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