Chinese symbol for “grope”
摸
mō
to feel with the hand; to touch; to stroke; to grope
The closest CC-CEDICT match for grope is 摸 (mō), defined as: to feel with the hand; to touch; to stroke; to grope; to steal; to abstract.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “grope”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 动手动脚 (動手動腳) | dòng shǒu dòng jiǎo | to come to blows; to paw |
| 毛手毛脚 (毛手毛腳) | máo shǒu máo jiǎo | carelessly and haphazardly; to paw |
| 探摸 | tàn mō | to feel for sth; to grope |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 摸.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 抚摸 (撫摸) | fǔ mō | to gently caress and stroke; to pet |
| 触摸 (觸摸) | chù mō | to touch |
| 摸索 | mō suo | to feel about; to grope about |
| 偷偷摸摸 | tōu tōu mō mō | (idiom) surreptitious; sneaky |
| 捉摸 | zhuō mō | to fathom; to make sense of |
| 自摸 | zì mō | (mahjong) to self-draw the winning tile; (slang) to play with oneself; to masturbate |
See also: Japanese symbol for “grope”.
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.