U+77BD "瞽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+77BD "瞽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "blind" or "sightless," but it carries a deeper historical and cultural connotation of blindness accompanied by a lack of wisdom or musical discernment, often used in classical texts to refer to a blind musician or a person who is metaphorically blind to the truth. In Chinese tradition, the character is notably associated with the "瞽者" (gǔ zhě), blind people who were sometimes employed as court musicians in ancient times due to their heightened sense of hearing. Composed of the radical "目" (eye) and the phonetic component "鼓" (drum), the form suggests a relation to both vision and sound, linking the character to themes of perception and artistry. It appears in classical literature like the "Book of Documents" and remains a specialized term in modern Chinese, used less for literal blindness and more for poetic or philosophical expressions of ignorance or unseeing states.