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Mythic Mandarin

默默 (mò mò): meaning and stroke order

默默 (mò mò) means in silence; not speaking.

默默

Simplified
默默
Traditional
默默 (same form)
Pinyin
mò mò

Stroke order of 默默

默

  • mò silent; to write from memory
  • 16 strokes

Stroke by stroke

默

  • mò silent; to write from memory
  • 16 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 默默

  1. mò mò
    • in silence; not speaking

Radicals of the characters

默
Radical 黑 (Kangxi radical 203) · 16 strokes · 黑 on the left, 犬 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

默默 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 人们常用“鲤鱼跃龙门”比喻考试成功、地位一下子提高。可在韩青的学堂里，龙门象征的不只是成功，还有蜕变的代价，和那条默默养活大家的河。

    rénmen cháng yòng lǐyú yuè lóngmén bǐyù kǎoshì chénggōng dìwèi yíxiàzi tígāo kě zài Hán Qīng de xuétáng lǐ Lóngmén xiàngzhēng de bù zhǐshì chénggōng háiyǒu tuìbiàn de dàijià hé nà tiáo mòmò yǎnghuo dàjiā de hé

    People often use "the carp leaps the Dragon Gate" for passing an examination and a sudden rise in status. But in Han Qing's school the Dragon Gate stood not only for success: it also stood for the price of transformation, and for the river that quietly keeps everyone alive.

    From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 默默

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).