磨 mó

1. mó verb to grind
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, 磨粉 'grind into powder' (Guoyu '磨' v 2; Unihan '磨')
2. mò noun grindstone
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 石磨 (Guoyu '磨' mò n; Unihan '磨')
3. mó verb to polish; to sharpen; to rub
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, 磨光 'polish' or 磨刀 'sharpen a knife' (Guoyu '磨' v 1; Unihan '磨')
4. mò verb to turn around
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 掉转 (Guoyu '磨' mò v 2)
5. mò verb to mill
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '磨' mò v 1)
6. mó verb to eliminate
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 消灭 (Guoyu '磨' v 3)
7. mó verb to be tangled
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 纠缠不休 (Guoyu '磨' v 4)
8. mó noun a difficulty; an obstruction
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 艰难 or 阻碍 (Guoyu '磨' n)

Contained in

• 磨起泡 friction blister
• 磨蹭 to rub lightly; to move slowly; to dawdle; to dillydally; to pester; to nag
• 磨练(磨練) to temper oneself; to steel oneself
• 磨工病 grinder's disease; silicosis
• 折磨 to persecute; to torment
• 磨砖(磨磚) a polished brick
• 刀不磨要生锈，人不学要落后(刀不磨要生銹，人不學要落後) a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study
• 石磨 grindstone
• 拖磨 dawdling; to waste time
• 磨牙 to grind one's teeth ; pointless arguing ; molar
• 前磨齿(前磨齒) premolar tooth
• 水磨石 terrazzo
• 磨唧 to be very slow; to dawdle
• 磨砂机(磨砂機) sander; sanding machine
• 磨刀霍霍 to sharpen one's sword; to prepare to attack; to be getting ready for battle
• 切磋琢磨 cutting and polishing; to learn by exchanging ideas or experiences
• 磨得开(磨得開) unembarrassed; without fear of impairing personal relation
• 磨炼(磨煉) to temper oneself; to steel oneself
• 磨杵成针(磨杵成針) to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle; to persevere in a difficult task; to study diligently
• 耳鬓厮磨(耳鬢廝磨) heads rubbing together; very close relationship
• 磨破嘴皮子 to wear out one's lips; to talk until one is blue in the face; to repeat again and again
• 碾磨 to mill; to grind; grinding stone
• 磨快 to sharpen; to grind (knife blades)
• 反酷刑折磨公约(反酷刑折磨公約) UN convention against torture and cruel treatment
• 懒驴上磨屎尿多(懶驢上磨屎尿多) a lazy person will find many excuses to delay working
• 磨豆腐 to grumble; to chatter away incessantly
• 缠磨(纏磨) to bother; to disturb
• 磨蚀(磨蝕) erosion; abrasion
• 渐磨而进(漸磨而進) advance by steady effort
• 磨损(磨損) wear and tear; abrasion
• 耐磨 wear resistant
• 揉磨 to torment; to torture
• 水磨 to [add water and] polish ; a fine carving
• 磨刀不误砍柴工(磨刀不誤砍柴工) sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer; time invested in preparations is not lost
• 电磨(電磨) electric mill (for grinding wheat etc)
• 磨洋工 to idle on the job
• 磨合 to break in; to wear in
• 磨石粗砂岩 millstone grit
• 磨嘴皮子 to wear out the skin of one's teeth; pointlessly blather; to talk incessant nonsense; blah blah
• 磨折 to torment
• 消磨时间(消磨時間) to kill time
• 磨刀石 whetstone (for honing knives)
• 棒磨机(棒磨機) rod mill
• 研磨 milling; to grind; to polish by grinding; to abrade; whetstone; pestle
• 磨治 to polish; to grind
• 有钱能使鬼推磨(有錢能使鬼推磨) money will make the Devil turn millstones; with money, you can do anything you like
• 现磨(現磨) freshly ground
• 磨菇 mushroom

Also contained in

水磨沟区 、 水磨沟 、 朗达磨

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• 卷一百五十八 志第一百十一 選舉四 Volume 158 Treatises 111: Selection and appointment of Officials 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 31
• 卷八十六　志第三十六: 　百官二 Volume 86 Treatises 39: Official Posts 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 29
• 卷九十六　志第四十五上: 食貨四 Volume 96 Treatises 49: Finance and Economics 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 26
• 卷八十九　志第三十九: 　百官五 Volume 89 Treatises 42: Official Posts 5 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 24
• 卷一百六十 志第一百十三 選舉六 Volume 160 Treatises 113: Selection and appointment of Officials 6 History of Song 宋史 — count: 21
• 卷八十八　志第三十八: 　百官四 Volume 88 Treatises 41: Official Posts 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 21
• 卷七十二 志第四十八 職官一 Volume 72 Treatises 48: Official Posts 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 16
• 卷一百八十五 志第一百三十八 食貨下七 Volume 185 Treatises 138: Finance and Economics 2g History of Song 宋史 — count: 16
• 卷七十五 志第五十一 職官四 Volume 75 Treatises 51: Official Posts 4 History of Ming 明史 — count: 16
• 卷八十五　志第三十五: 　百官一 Volume 85 Treatises 38: Official Posts 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 16

Collocations

• 磨浑 (磨渾) 子磨渾 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷14 神元平文諸帝子孫 Volume 14: Emperor Shenyuan's and Emperor Pingwen's Children and Grandchildren — count: 18
• 磨奴 (磨奴) 弟虔之子磨奴 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷32 高湖 崔逞 封懿 Volume 32: Gao Hu, Cui Cheng, Feng Yi — count: 9
• 磨鑢 (磨鑢) 不磨鑢 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十二 董卓列傳 Volume 72: Biography of Dong Zhuo — count: 5
• 尚可磨 (尚可磨) 尚可磨也 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧抑 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Yi — count: 5
• 随磨 (隨磨) 故不得不隨磨以左回焉 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十一 志第一 天文上 Volume 11 Treatises 1: Astronomy Part One — count: 4
• 可磨 (可磨) 猶可磨也 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《晉世家》 House of Jin — count: 4
• 磨山 (磨山) 武進延陵毗陵既陽無錫有磨山 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷十五 志第五 地理下 Volume 15 Treatises 5: Geography Part Two — count: 3
• 磨萧 (磨蕭) 猶磨蕭斧而伐朝菌也 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷四十二 蜀書十二　　杜周杜許孟來尹李譙郤傳 Volume 42: Book of Shu 12 - Biographies of Du, Zhou, Du, Xu, Meng, Lai, Yin, Li, Qiao, and Xi — count: 3
• 磨莹 (磨瑩) 使明珠加磨瑩之功 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷六十九 列傳第三十九 劉隗 刁協 戴若思 周顗 Volume 69 Biographies 39: Liu Wei; Diao Xie; Dai Ruosi; Zhou Yi — count: 3
• 磨砻 (磨礱) 磨礱砥礪 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷九 正諫 Chapter 9: Direct Advice — count: 3