Illustration: In a small suburban vegetable garden, a gardener proudly tightens bird netting over a carefully fenced strawberry bed. Clips secure the top, and stones weigh down most edges, but a large gap remains beneath the gate directly behind the gardener's boots.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

盲もう点てん

mouten

blind spot, overlooked weakness

Example sentences

  1. これは大島おおしまが日本社会にっぽんしゃかいに身みをおいていたがゆえに気付きづかなかった盲点もうてんであると言いえる。

    Being that he lived in Japanese society, it is possible to say that this was a blind spot for Oshima.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. なるほど、それは盲点もうてんだった。

    I see. I hadn’t thought of that.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

  3. 会場かいじょうまでの交通費こうつうひは盲点もうてんだった。

    I hadn’t thought about the cost of getting to the venue.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 盲点

  • 盲blind; blind manOnモウKunめくら
  • 点spot; pointOnテンKunつける・つく・たてる

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