茅塞顿开
Traditional form:
茅塞頓開
Pinyin (reading):
máosèdùnkāi
Definitions:
- murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom); a sudden flash of insight and all is clear
Characters:
- 茅 - rushes, reeds, grass; surname
- 塞 - to stop up, to seal, to cork, to block; pass, frontier; fortress
- 顿 - to pause; to bow; to arrange
- 开 - to open; to start, to initiate, to begin
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