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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *摸* | 摸* | *摸
to feel with the hand / to touch / to stroke / to grope / to steal / to abstract
HSK 4
to touch
HSK 7-9
to gently caress and stroke / to pet / to fondle
HSK 7-9
to feel about / to grope about / to fumble / to do things slowly
HSK 7-9
to have a clear view (of a situation) / to fish for information / fact-finding
to reckon / to guess
to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain
to imitate the dog and steal chicken (idiom) / to pilfer / to dally with women / to have affairs
(idiom) military title said to have existed in the Han dynasty, allegedly granted to officials tasked with retrieving gold from tombs to fund military campaigns; (in popular fiction) tomb raider
to look for / to explore / to probe
to go through challenging experiences / to become seasoned (in one's profession etc)
(idiom) surreptitious; sneaky
(mahjong) to self-draw the winning tile / (slang) to play with oneself; to masturbate
to suss out; to figure out; to ascertain
to grope about in the dark
to fathom / to make sense of / to grasp
lit. to follow the vine to get to the melon / to track sth following clues
(dialect) to savor / to test the taste of / (fig.) to ponder upon / to mull over
blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
to feel for sth / to grope
to touch an elephant with closed eyes (idiom); to proceed blindly
(idiom) unpredictable; elusive; hard to pin down
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *摸* | 摸* | *摸
variant of
blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
to draw lots / raffle / lottery
variant of 約莫|约莫
surreptitious; sneaky
touchscreen
to look for / to seek (colloq.)
to be unable to make any sense of the matter / to be at a loss
to be able to touch / tangible
can't touch; can't reach / (fig.) unable to get a grasp of
to wade across the river, feeling for footholds as one goes (idiom) / to advance cautiously, step by step / to feel one's way forward
touchscreen
to feel sb's pulse
to touch an elephant (of proverbial blind people)
touch bar (hostess bar that allows physical contact)
lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom) / fig. at a total loss
not acquainted with the situation / not up on things
(of sb in an unfamiliar situation) helpless and disoriented
variant of 踅摸
can't make head or tail of
to play mahjong
thorough search
to draw a tile (at mahjong) / to play mahjong
lit. crossing the river by feeling for stones / improvise by trial-and-error / move cautiously
to catch fish / (fig.) to loaf on the job; to be slack; to take it easy
to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain / also written 渾水摸魚|浑水摸鱼
multitude of blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经); fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
touchpad / trackpad
elusive / hard to pin down / enigmatic
(idiom) muddled; momentarily confused


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