摸

摸 mō in a sentence

Stroke (touch - feel - grope)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 10 sentences

摸 (mō) means Stroke (touch - feel - grope). Below are 10 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

小心,别 摸 这个。

Xiǎoxīn, bié mō zhège.

Careful, do not touch this.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 摸

他 摸 了 摸 孩子的头。

Tā mō le mō háizi de tóu.

He stroked the child's head.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 摸

请不要动手 摸 展品。

Qǐng bú yào dòngshǒu mō zhǎnpǐn.

Please do not touch the exhibits.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 动手

这块布 摸 起来很粗糙。

Zhè kuài bù mō qǐlái hěn cūcāo.

This cloth feels rough.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 粗糙

他很快就 摸 到了窍门。

Tā hěn kuài jiù mō dào le qiàomén.

He soon got the hang of it.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 窍门

她轻轻抚 摸 着孩子的头发。

Tā qīngqīng fǔmōzhe háizi de tóufa.

She gently stroked the child's hair.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 抚摸

他在黑暗中 摸 索着找开关。

Tā zài hēi'àn zhōng mōsuǒzhe zhǎo kāiguān.

He groped around in the dark for the switch.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 摸索

这套方法是他自己 摸 索出来的。

Zhè tào fāngfǎ shì tā zìjǐ mōsuǒ chūlái de.

He worked this method out for himself by trial and error.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 摸索

他的回答很含糊,让人 摸 不着头脑。

Tā de huídá hěn hánhu, ràng rén mō bu zháo tóunǎo.

His answer was so vague that nobody could make head or tail of it.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 含糊

他抚 摸 着那本旧书,想起了很多往事。

Tā fǔmōzhe nà běn jiù shū, xiǎngqǐ le hěn duō wǎngshì.

Stroking that old book, he remembered a great deal of the past.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 抚摸

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Words that contain 摸

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How is 摸 used in a sentence?

This page shows 10 sentences using 摸 (mō, "Stroke (touch - feel - grope)"), 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 摸 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 摸 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Is 摸 an HSK word?

Yes — 摸 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 摸?

The dictionary page for 摸 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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