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麻
má
1.
generic name for hemp, flax etc
2.
hemp or flax fiber for textile materials
3.
sesame
4.
CL:[[縷|缕<lǚ>]]
5.
(of materials) rough or coarse
6.
pocked
7.
pitted
8.
to have pins and needles or tingling
9.
to feel numb
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Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
主麻
zhǔmá
jummah or Friday, when Muslims gather to attend prayers (loanword from Arabic)
乱麻
luànmá
lit. tangled skein
亚麻
yàmá
flax
全麻
quánmá
general anesthetic
剑麻
jiànmá
sisal hemp
大麻
dàmá
hemp (Cannabis sativa)
天麻
tiānmá
Gastrodia elata (botany)
发麻
fāmá
to feel numb
种麻
zhǒngmá
distinctively female hemp plant (Cannabis sativa)
箍麻
gūmá
to become numb (from being bound too tightly)
肉麻
ròumá
sickening
胡麻
húmá
sesame
脂麻
zhīma
variant of [[芝麻<zhīma>]]
芝麻
zhīma
sesame (seed)
苘麻
qǐngmá
Indian mallow (Abutilon theophrasti)
苎麻
zhùmá
rush (tall grass)
苴麻
jūmá
distinctively female hemp plant (Cannabis sativa)
蓖麻
bìmá
castor-oil plant
荨麻
qiánmá
nettle
蕉麻
jiāomá
abaca
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Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 4
- Character Frequency Rank
- 1,107
- Word Frequency Rank
- 504 of 84,292
- Radical Number
- 200