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抹

mǒ, mā, mò

smear

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 末 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

末 sound component

末  Sound component

mò

  

end

Evolution

抹 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
抹 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
抹 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

抹  

mǒ

smear, apply, wipe off, erase; to smear; to erase; classifier for wisps of cloud, light-beams etc

抹  

mā

to wipe

抹  

mò

to plaster; to go around; to skirt

Most common words with 抹
Freq.
Word
Meaning

抹

to smear

涂抹

to paint

抹杀

to erase

抹黑

to discredit

抹布

cleaning rag

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.8441% of movies

2030th most common character in movies

2087th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+62B9


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