䀮

huāng

Blurred sight · huang

Also rendered: blurred sight (Keeps the mildness of what it describes) · dimmed vision (Closer to the gloss, slightly more literary) · loss of vision (Too strong: the chapter says 無所見, nothing taken in, not nothing seen) · huang (Bare transliteration)

Reviewed · 2026-09

At a glance

Pinyin
huāng
Simplified
䀮
Literal
A late graph, absent from the 說文: an eye radical with 芒 (an awn) giving the sound, and the dictionaries that do carry it — 玉篇, 廣韻 — gloss it 目不明, the eye not discriminating. Some editors read it máng by its phonetic; this site follows the commentators who give huāng. It is written twice running in the chapter, 䀮䀮, which is how Chinese says a state rather than an event.
Shuowen
《說文解字》無此字。《玉篇》:䀮,目不明也。《廣韻》:呼光切,目不明。本篇作「目䀮䀮」連文,音 huāng,一讀 máng。

In brief

This is what liver depletion does, and the chapter sets it carefully against what liver repletion does. Repletion gives pain below the flanks drawing into the lower abdomen and a temper; depletion takes the senses away. Nothing is blind — rather the eyes are blurred and take nothing in, the ears take nothing in, and fear arrives like someone about to be arrested. It is the same order of symptom the chapter gives for depleted qi elsewhere: the organ stops sending, so the orifices stop receiving.

Senses in the classical corpus

1
Blurred and taking nothing in 目䀮䀮無所見
肝虛不能上奉於目
虚則目䀮䀮無所見 — Suwen 22
2
With the ear taken too 耳無所聞
肝虛則耳目並廢其用
虚則目䀮䀮無所見,耳無所聞 — Suwen 22
3
With unexplained fear 善恐,如人將捕之
肝虛則膽怯而恐
善恐,如人將捕之 — Suwen 22
4
As the counterpart of liver repletion 兩脅下痛引少腹,令人善怒
實則痛而善怒,虛則昏而善恐
肝病者,兩脅下痛引少腹,令人善怒 — Suwen 22

Occurrences in the classics

Passages where the term does real work, with the original, pinyin and English on the same line.

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素問·藏氣法時論 Suwen 22 · 藏氣法時論 Read in context →
虚則目䀮䀮無所見,耳無所聞,善恐,如人將捕之。 虚则目䀮䀮无所见,耳无所闻,善恐,如人将捕之。
Xū zé mù huāng huāng wú suǒ jiàn, ěr wú suǒ wén, shàn kǒng, rú rén jiāng bǔ zhī.
In depletion the eyes are blurred and make out nothing, the ears catch nothing, and there is constant fear, as though someone were about to seize him.
本篇肝虛之候,連舉三事:目䀮䀮無所見、耳無所聞、善恐如人將捕之。與其上文實證「兩脅下痛引少腹,令人善怒」恰為一對——實則氣鬱而痛而怒,虛則氣不上奉而昏而恐。「䀮䀮」二字重言,是寫模糊之狀而非一時之昏冒,與後世「目眩」(天旋地轉)之實指旋暈者微別。此字《說文》不收,本篇為全書所見之一例,與第十七篇所述目之用者各明一端。
素問·刺腰痛 Suwen 41 · 刺腰痛 Read in context →
解脉,令人腰痛,痛引肩,目䀮䀮然,時遺溲,剌解脉,在膝筋肉分間郄外廉之横脉出血,血變而止。 解脉,令人腰痛,痛引肩,目䀮䀮然,时遗溲,刺解脉,在膝筋肉分间郄外廉之横脉出血,血变而止。
Jiě mài, lìng rén yāo tòng, tòng yǐn jiān, mù huāng huāng rán, shí yí sōu, cì jiě mài, zài xī jīn ròu fēn jiān xì wài lián zhī héng mài chū xuè, xuè biàn ér zhǐ.
The jie vessel gives pain in the lower back that draws into the shoulder; the eyes go dim and blank, and the patient passes urine unawares. Needle the jie vessel: let blood from the transverse vessel at the division of sinew and flesh at the knee, on the outer edge of the cleft, and stop when the blood changes colour.
**「目䀮䀮然」本篇2見**——**解脉之條、昌陽之條**;**俠脊至頭之條作「目䀮䀮欲僵仆」**——**三條皆「目䀮䀮」,故「䀮」本篇凡6見**,**為本站「䀮」字見於底本之最頻者**。「䀮」讀 huāng**讀 huāng**;「目」讀 mù**本篇3見**。**與第二十二篇「虚則目䀮䀮無所見」同辭**:**彼屬肝虚,此則散在三脉**——**一因藏虚,一因脉病**。「溲」讀 sōu**「時遺溲」之「溲」讀 sōu,本篇2見**。
素問·脉解 Suwen 49 · 脉解 Read in context →
所謂色色不能久立久坐,起則目䀮䀮無所見者,萬物陰陽不定,未有主也,秋氣始至,微霜始下,而方殺萬物,陰陽内奪,故目䀮䀮無所見也。 所谓色色不能久立久坐,起则目䀮䀮无所见者,万物阴阳不定,未有主也,秋气始至,微霜始下,而方杀万物,阴阳内夺,故目䀮䀮无所见也。
Suǒ wèi sè sè bù néng jiǔ lì jiǔ zuò, qǐ zé mù huāng huāng wú suǒ jiàn zhě, wàn wù yīn yáng bù dìng, wèi yǒu zhǔ yě, qiū qì shǐ zhì, wēi shuāng shǐ xià, ér fāng shā wàn wù, yīn yáng nèi duó, gù mù huāng huāng wú suǒ jiàn yě.
What is called being drained of colour, unable to stand or sit long, and seeing nothing when one rises: the yin and yang of the myriad things are unsettled and nothing yet presides; autumn qi has just arrived, the first light frost has begun to fall and is even now killing the myriad things, while yin and yang are stripped within; hence the dim and useless sight.
「目「䀮」讀 huāng䀮無所見」——**本篇「䀮」4見,讀 huāng,皆疊用**;**「無所見」之「見」讀 jiàn——「見」讀 jiàn,本篇3見,惟「血見於𤾁」讀 xiàn**;「目」讀 mù、**本篇2見**;**目無所見與下文「恐如人將捕之」並見,本條所錄肝虚之證正同**。
素問·氣交變大論 Suwen 69 · 氣交變大論 Read in context →
民病寒疾於下,甚則腹滿浮腫,上應鎮星,其主黅榖。復則大風暴發,草偃木零,生長不鮮,面色時變,筋骨併辟,肉膶瘛,目視䀮䀮,物疏璺,肌肉胗發,氣并鬲中,痛於心腹,黄氣乃損,其榖不登,上應歲星。 民病寒疾于下,甚则腹满浮肿,上应镇星,其主黅谷。复则大风暴发,草偃木零,生长不鲜,面色时变,筋骨并辟,肉膶瘛,目视䀮䀮,物疏璺,肌肉胗发,气并鬲中,痛于心腹,黄气乃损,其谷不登,上应岁星。
Mín bìng hán jí yú xià, shèn zé fù mǎn fú zhǒng, shàng yìng zhèn xīng, qí zhǔ jīn gǔ. Fù zé dà fēng bào fā, cǎo yǎn mù líng, shēng zhǎng bù xiān, miàn sè shí biàn, jīn gǔ bìng bì, ròu rún chì, mù shì huāng huāng, wù shū wèn, jī ròu zhěn fā, qì bìng gé zhōng, tòng yú xīn fù, huáng qì nǎi sǔn, qí gǔ bù dēng, shàng yìng suì xīng.
The people are ill with cold disease below and, if it is severe, fullness of the abdomen and floating swelling; it answers above to Saturn, and what it governs is the yellow grain. When revenge comes, great wind breaks out violently, the grass lies down and the trees are stripped, growth is not fresh, the colour of the face changes from time to time, the sinews and bones are drawn together and awry, the flesh twitches and there is convulsion, the eyes see dimly, things are cracked and split, rashes break out on the flesh, the qi gathers in the diaphragm, there is pain in the heart and abdomen, the yellow qi is damaged, and its grain is not harvested; it answers above to Jupiter.
「肉膶瘛,目視䀮䀮,物疏璺」——**「䀮」本篇2見,在此疊用為「䀮䀮」,目視不明之貌**;**本篇此形止見此一處,與「目視」連文**;**同句「膶」讀 rún、「瘛」讀 chì,二字本篇各一見,皆在「肉膶瘛」**;**「䀮」讀 huāng**

Compounds built on this term

䀮
huāng
blurred sight
《玉篇》:目不明也
目䀮䀮
mù huāng huāng
the eyes dimmed
本篇連用二字以狀其態
無所見
wú suǒ jiàn
taking nothing in
與下文「耳無所聞」對文
善恐
shàn kǒng
prone to fear
本篇肝虛之候
目眩
mù xuàn
dizzy vision
後世通用之目症,與䀮之「不明」微別

How it has been translated

Every rendering below is a decision about which reader is being addressed. There is no neutral option.

Wiseman & Feng(periphrastic)Their dictionaries handle this graph by expansion rather than by a standing equivalent.
Unschuldthe eyes are unseeingHe translates the clause rather than the single word, staying with what the sentence claims.
This siteblurred sightThe word describes seeing that has gone soft, not sight that has gone. 'Dimmed vision' would nearly do, but there is no need to dress up what is being said about a tired liver.

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