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扪

mén

stoke

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 门 represents the sound. Simplified form of 捫.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

门 sound component

门  Sound component

mén

  

door

Evolution

扪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
扪 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
扪 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

扪 (捫) 

mén

stoke, pat, feel by hand, grope; lay hands on; to cover

Most common words with 扪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

扪心自问

to ask oneself honestly

扪

to cover

扪心无愧

lit. look into one's heart, no shame (idiom); with a clear conscience

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4416th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

捫

Unicode

U+626A


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