摸 mō
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mō
verb
to feel with the hand; to touch; to stroke
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '摸'; Guoyu '摸' v 1; Kroll 2015 '摸' 1, p. 321; Unihan '摸'; XHZD '摸' 1, p. 511) -
mó
verb
to imitate; to copy
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Variant of 摹; in the sense of 仿效 (Guoyu '摸' mó v; Kroll 2015 '摸' 2, p. 321; ) -
mō
verb
to grope
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '摸'; Kroll 2015 '摸' 1a, p. 321; XHZD '摸' 2, p. 511) -
mō
verb
to conjecture
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 揣测 (Guoyu '摸' v 2) -
mō
verb
to scoop
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 掏 (Guoyu '摸' v 3) -
mō
verb
to steal
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 偷取 (Guoyu '摸' v 4) -
mō
verb
to grab; to snatch
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 抓 (Guoyu '摸' v 5) -
mō
verb
to stop over
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 逗留 (Guoyu '摸' v 6)
Contained in
- 摸吧 touch bar (hostess bar that allows physical contact)
- 探摸 to feel for; to grope
- 摸象 to touch an elephant (of proverbial blind people)
- 捉摸 to fathom; to make sense of; to grasp
- 混水摸鱼(混水摸魚) to fish in troubled water; to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain
- 摸石头过河(摸石頭過河) crossing the river by feeling for stones; improvise by trial-and-error; move cautiously
- 摸不着头脑(摸不著頭腦) to be unable to make any sense of the matter; to be at a loss
- 咂摸 to savor; to test the taste of; to ponder upon; to mull over
- 偷偷摸摸 surreptitious; sneaky
- 摸黑 to grope about in the dark
- 众盲摸象(眾盲摸象) multitude of blind people touch an elephant; unable to see the big picture; to mistake the part for the whole
- 顺藤摸瓜(順藤摸瓜) to follow the vine to get to the melon; to track sth following clues
- 建摸 to build a model
- 偷鸡摸狗(偷雞摸狗) to imitate the dog and steal chicken; to pilfer; to dally with women; to have affairs
- 偷东摸西(偷東摸西) to steal and touch everything from east to west
- 浑水摸鱼(渾水摸魚) to fish in troubled water; to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain
- 暗中摸索 groping in the dark
- 触摸(觸摸) to touch
- 踅摸 to look for; to seek (colloq.)
- 不摸头(不摸頭) not acquainted with the situation; not up on things
- 摸鱼(摸魚) to catch fish
- 盲人摸象 blind people touch an elephant; unable to see the big picture; to mistake the part for the whole; unable to see the wood for the trees
- 估摸 to reckon; to guess
- 抚摸(撫摸) to gently caress and stroke; to pet; to fondle
- 瞎子摸象 blind people touch an elephant; unable to see the big picture; to mistake the part for the whole; unable to see the wood for the trees
- 摸排 thorough search
- 触摸屏幕(觸摸屏幕) touchscreen
- 合眼摸象 to touch an elephant with closed eyes; to proceed blindly
- 约摸(約摸) about; around; approximately
- 摸脉(摸脈) to feel somebody's pulse
- 摸爬滚打(摸爬滾打) to go through challenging experiences; to become seasoned (in one's profession etc)
- 触摸板(觸摸板) touchpad; trackpad
- 摸清 to suss out; to figure out; to ascertain
- 摸八圈 to play mahjong
- 难以捉摸(難以捉摸) elusive; hard to pin down; enigmatic
- 触摸屏(觸摸屏) touchscreen
- 鬼摸脑壳(鬼摸腦殼) muddled; momentarily confused
- 寻摸(尋摸) to look for; to explore; to probe
- 摸索 to grope; to stroke ; to seek; to search
- 摸不着边(摸不著邊) irrelevant; can't make head or tail of
- 摸骨 to tell someone's fortune by feeling their bones
- 摸不着(摸不著) can't touch; can't reach; unable to get a grasp of
- 丈二和尚,摸不着头脑(丈二和尚,摸不著頭腦) like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head; at a total loss
- 摸底 to find out the details
- 摸牌 to draw a tile (at mahjong); to play mahjong
- 摸彩 to draw lots; raffle; lottery
- 摸着石头过河(摸著石頭過河) to wade across the river, feeling for footholds as one goes; to advance cautiously, step by step
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Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第五回 Chapter 5 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 12
- 第五十五回 Chapter 55 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 7
- 第三十八回 Chapter 38 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 6
- 第五十四回 Chapter 54 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
- 第四十六回 Chapter 46 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 6
- 第七十回 Chapter 70 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 6
- 卷五十四 列傳第四十八 諸夷 Volume 54: Various Barbarians Book of Liang 梁書 — count: 6
- 第一百十四回 Chapter 114 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 5
- 第五十四回 Chapter 54 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 5
- 卷九十四 列傳第八十二: 高麗 百濟 新羅 勿吉 奚 契丹 室韋 豆莫婁 地豆干 烏洛侯 流求 倭 Volume 94 Biographies 82: Goryeo, Baekje, Silla, Wuji, Xi, Khitan, Shiwei, Doumolou, Didouyu, Wuluohou, Liuqiu, Japan History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 5
Collocations
- 夷摸 (夷摸) 子伊夷摸立 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷五十四 列傳第四十八 諸夷 Volume 54: Various Barbarians — count: 11
- 摸时 (摸時) 便去腰裏摸時 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二回 Chapter 2 — count: 11
- 摸末 (摸末) 有郁射設阿史那摸末率其部落入居河南 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷六十九 列傳第十九: 侯君集 張亮 薛萬徹 Volume 69 Biographies 19: Hou Junji, Zhang Liang, Xue Wanche — count: 8
- 裏摸 (裏摸) 便去腰裏摸時 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二回 Chapter 2 — count: 8
- 一摸 (一摸) 把頭摸一摸 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第四回 Chapter 4 — count: 7
- 摸摸 (摸摸) 一摸摸著銷金帳子 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第五回 Chapter 5 — count: 6
- 摸金 (摸金) 摸金校尉 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十四上 袁紹劉表列傳 Volume 74a: Biographies of Yuan Shao, Liu Biao 1 — count: 6
- 摸一 (摸一) 把頭摸一摸 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第四回 Chapter 4 — count: 4
- 去摸 (去摸) 探一隻手入去摸時 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第五回 Chapter 5 — count: 4
- 来摸 (來摸) 一頭摸來摸去 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第五回 Chapter 5 — count: 4