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to apply; to erase, to smear, to wipe off

🔤 Pictophonetic: 扌 (hand) provides meaning, 末 provides pronunciation
HSK 6 8 strokes Common (21%)

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⿰扌末 i

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Component Tree i

shǒu
hand
📷 Pictographic: A hand with the fingers splayed; compare 手
3 strokes
end, final, last; insignificant
💡 Ideographic: The top 一 of a tree 木
5 strokes HSK 3

Words Using 抹 (32)

túmǒ
涂抹
HSK 6
to paint / to smear / to apply (makeup etc) / to doodle / to erase / to obliterate
mǒshā
抹杀
HSK 6
to erase / to cover traces / to obliterate evidence / to expunge / to blot out / to suppress
to wipe
to plaster / to go around / to skirt
to smear / to wipe / to erase / classifier for wisps of cloud, light-beams etc
mǒqù
抹去
to erase
mābù
抹布
cleaning rag / also pr. <mǒbù>
mǒhēi
抹黑
to discredit / to defame / to smear sb's name / to bring shame upon (oneself or one's family etc) / to blacken (e.g. commando's face for camouflage) / to black out or obliterate (e.g. censored words)
wǎngliǎnshàngmǒhēi
往脸上抹黑
to bring shame to / to smear / to disgrace
mǒyībízihuī
抹一鼻子灰
lit. to rub one's nose with dust / to suffer a snub / to meet with a rebuff
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