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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
mò | mo4
English translation
raised path
street
strange, unfamiliar; a foot path between rice fields

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Number of strokes

8

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Adjective / 形容词 xíng róng cí Xíngróng cí

Learning hint

A large  Bǎi city , representing an unfamiliar place

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

阝百

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dāi 头呆脑 de qiáo zhāo 那个 nà ge 陌生人 mò shēng rén .

She gave the stranger a wooden stare.

ràng 陌生人 mò shēng rén 他们 tā men Mǎn kǒu 细菌 xìjūn de kǒu tiǎn 你的子宫 zǐ gōng ?

You let strangers put their germ - filled mouths on your uterus?

shuí 知道 zhīdào 那个 nà ge 神秘 shénmì 陌生人 mò shēng rén de 身世 shēn shì .

No one knew the antecedents of the mysterious stranger.

他们 tā men zhēng zài 开会 kāi huì , wèi 陌生人 mò shēng rén chuǎng le 进去 jìn qù .

A stranger barged in on them while they were having a meeting.

gǒu Xiàng 陌生人 mò shēng rén lái .

The dog bit at the stranger.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
陌生人 mò shēng rén stranger陌生人 mò shēng rén
陌生 mòshēng strange陌生 mòshēng
street
陌路 mò lù (literary) stranger陌路 mò lù
田陌 tián mò fields田陌 tián mò
柳陌花衢 liǔ mò huā qú brothel柳陌花衢 liǔ mò huā qú

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Decomposition

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