Chinese symbol for “discredit”
抹黑
mǒ hēi
to discredit; to defame; to smear sb's name; to bring shame upon (oneself or one's family etc)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for discredit is 抹黑 (mǒ hēi), defined as: 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).
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 抹黑.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 涂抹 (塗抹) | tú mǒ | to paint; to smear |
| 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 |
| 黑人 | hēi rén | black person; an illegal |
| 黑暗 | hēi àn | dark; darkly |
| 黑色 | hēi sè | black |
See also: Japanese symbol for “discredit”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.