蒙昧

méngmèi

adjective #64,526

Meanings

HSK 6

教育让人们摆脱了蒙昧。

Jiàoyù ràng rénmen bǎituō le méngmèi.

Education freed people from ignorance.

HSK 6

在蒙昧时代，人们把雷电看作神的愤怒。

Zài méngmèi shídài, rénmen bǎ léidiàn kànzuò shén de fènnù.

In primitive times, people saw thunder and lightning as the anger of the gods.

mistakes

蒙 is méng here, not mēng as in 蒙人 'to fool people', nor Měng as in 蒙古.

memory

昧 is the sun 日 with 未 'not yet': the dim time before daybreak. Covered and dim together make a mind still in the dark.

蒙 méng

昧 mèi