抹 — Chinese character
抹
mǒ
to apply; to erase, to smear, to wipe off
- Pinyin
- mǒ
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 扌 末
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 末
- Japanese
- 抹 as a kanji
Common words with 抹
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 涂抹 (塗抹) | tú mǒ | to paint; to smear |
| 抹黑 | mǒ hēi | to discredit; to defame |
| 抹杀 (抹殺) | mǒ shā | to erase; to cover traces |
| 抹布 | mā bù | cleaning rag; also pr. [mo3 bu4] |
| 抹煞 | mǒ shā | variant of 抹杀 (mǒ shā) |
| 拐弯抹角 (拐彎抹角) | guǎi wān mò jiǎo | lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom); fig. to speak in a roundabout way |
| 抹香鲸 (抹香鯨) | mǒ xiāng jīng | sperm whale; cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus) |
| 转弯抹角 (轉彎抹角) | zhuǎn wān mò jiǎo | see 拐弯抹角 (guǎi wān mò jiǎo) |
| 浓妆艳抹 (濃妝艷抹) | nóng zhuāng yàn mǒ | to apply makeup conspicuously (idiom); dressed to the nines and wearing makeup |
| 抹灰 | mǒ huī | to plaster; to render (a wall) |
| 涂脂抹粉 (塗脂抹粉) | tú zhī mǒ fěn | (idiom) to put on makeup; (idiom) to prettify |
| 抹胸 | mò xiōng | old feminine garment, covering chest and abdomen |
English words written with 抹
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.