mó
rub
Phonosemantic compound. 手 represents the meaning and 麻 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 摩
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
massage | ||
motorbike | ||
to rub | ||
Sherlock Holmes, 歇洛克·福爾摩斯|歇洛克·福尔摩斯[Xie1 luo4 ke4 · Fu2 er3 mo2 si1] | ||
Capricornus |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 27.6470% of movies
936th most common character in movies
1162nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+6469 |
Shuowen | “摩,研也。从手,麻聲。” |
Sources
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