磨 (mó) means Rub (grind - sharpen - hardship). Below are 7 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
新车有一个 磨 合期。
Xīn chē yǒu yí ge móhé qī.
A new car has a running-in period.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 磨合
疾病折 磨 了他很多年。
Jíbìng zhémo le tā hěn duō nián.
Illness tormented him for many years.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 折磨
等待有时是一种折 磨 。
Děngdài yǒushí shì yì zhǒng zhémo.
Waiting is sometimes a torment.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 折磨
这句话值得好好琢 磨 。
Zhè jù huà zhíde hǎohāo zuómo.
This sentence is worth pondering carefully.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 琢磨
他琢 磨 了半天才想明白。
Tā zuómo le bàntiān cái xiǎng míngbai.
He turned it over for a long while before he understood.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 琢磨
新团队还需要一段时间 磨 合。
Xīn tuánduì hái xūyào yí duàn shíjiān móhé.
The new team still needs time to settle in together.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 磨合
困难可以 磨 炼一个人的意志。
Kùnnan kěyǐ móliàn yí ge rén de yìzhì.
Hardship can temper a person's will.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 意志
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Words that contain 磨
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Questions about 磨
How is 磨 used in a sentence?
This page shows 7 sentences using 磨 (mó, "Rub (grind - sharpen - hardship)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 磨 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 磨 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 磨?
The dictionary page for 磨 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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