膜 (mó): membrane, film
膜 (mó) is a Chinese character meaning “membrane.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of ⺼ (semantic) and 莫 (phonetic). It ranks #1920 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 膜 flesh. Its radical form 肉 (meat) appears in many related characters such as 肉 (ròu, meat), 能 (néng, can), 背 (bèi, the back of a body or object).
Definitions
- membrane
- film
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 视网膜noun | shì wǎng mó | retina |
| 脑膜炎noun | nǎo mó yán | meningitis |
| 隔膜adjective | gé mó | diaphragm (anatomy) |
| 角膜noun | jiǎo mó | cornea |
| 处女膜noun | chǔ nǚ mó | hymen |
| 薄膜noun | bó mó | membrane |
| 脑膜noun | nǎo mó | meninx |
| 虹膜noun | hóng mó | iris (of an eye) |
| 瓣膜noun | bàn mó | valve (biological) |
| 黏膜noun | nián mó | mucous membrane |
| 骨膜noun | gǔ mó | (anatomy) periosteum |
| 羊膜noun | yáng mó | (anatomy) amnion |
| 眼角膜noun | yǎn jiǎo mó | cornea |
| 耳膜noun | ěr mó | eardrum |
| 横膈膜noun | héng gé mó | (anatomy) diaphragm |
膜 appears in 68 compound words: 6 as the first character, 72 as the last, and 22 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 膜 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
膜字在日常生活中使用频率较低。
mó zì zài rì cháng shēng huó zhōng shǐ yòng pín lǜ jiào dī .
The character "膜" is not frequently used in daily life.
宫腔内回声不均匀是什么意思?内膜脱落不全也会这样吗
gōng qiāng nèi huí shēng bù jūn yún shì shén má yì sī ? nèi mó tuō luò bù quán yě huì zhè yàng ma
What does uneven echo in the uterine cavity mean? Is this also the case with incomplete lining detachment?
深海鱼视网膜发现新“混血”视觉细胞,颠覆 150 年...
shēn hǎi yú shì wǎng mó fā xiàn xīn hùn xiě shì jué xì bāo , diān fù 1 5 0 nián . . .
Deep-sea fish retinas discover new "mixed" visual cells, disrupting 150 years...
【座标移动中】邹欣宁/他们膜拜的,是一整座森林
zuò biāo yí dòng zhōng 邹 xīn nìng tā men mó bài de , shì yī zhěng zuò sēn lín
[Coordinates moving] Zou Xinning/What they worship is a whole forest
...̸没事!医曝2残酷情况:肿瘤恐“大到顶腹膜”
. . . méi shì ! yī pù 2 cán kù qíng kuàng : zhǒng liú kǒng dà dào dǐng fù mó
... ̸It's okay! Medical exposure 2 cruel situation: the tumor may be "as big as the parietal peritoneum"
大年初一,浙大发顶刊论文:用人工智能为膜蛋白造“装..
dà nián chū yī , zhè dà fā dǐng kān lùn wén : yòng rén gōng zhì néng wéi mó dàn bái zào zhuāng . .
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhejiang University published a paper on the use of artificial intelligence to make "installations" for membrane proteins.
我五年前做了网膜剥离。
Wǒ wǔ niánqián zuò le wǎngmó bōlí.
I had retinal detachment five years ago.
我十四岁的时候，父亲死于蛛网膜下出血。
Wǒ shísì suì de shíhou, fùqīn sǐ yú zhūwǎng mó xià chūxuè.
My father died of a subarachnoid hemorrhage when I was fourteen.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the ⺼ (flesh) component
Frequently Asked Questions
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