莫 (mò): do not, there is none who
莫 (mò) is a Chinese character meaning “do not.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 艹 (structural) and 旲 (structural). It ranks #955 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Definitions
- do not
- there is none who
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 莫斯科proper-noun | mò sī kē | Moscow, capital of Russia |
| 莫名其妙phrase | mò míng qí miào | (idiom) baffling |
| 莫扎特proper-noun | mò zhā tè | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Austrian composer |
| 莫非adverb | mò fēi | can it be possible that |
| 莫大adjective | mò dà | greatest |
| 莫须有adjective | mò xū yǒu | groundless |
| 莫过于verb | mò guò yú | nothing can surpass |
| 莫名verb | mò míng | inexpressible |
| 爱莫能助phrase | ài mò néng zhù | unable to help however much one would like to (idiom) |
| 莫尔斯 | mò ěr sī | Morse (name) |
| 莫桑比克proper-noun | mò sāng bǐ kè | Mozambique |
| 后悔莫及phrase | hòu huǐ mò jí | too late for regrets (idiom) |
| 一筹莫展phrase | yī chóu mò zhǎn | to be unable to find a solution |
| 拉莫斯proper-noun | lā mò sī | (Philippine President Fidel) Ramos |
| 莫奈 | mò nài | Claude Monet (1840-1926), French impressionist painter |
莫 appears in 100 compound words: 58 as the first character, 6 as the last, and 36 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 莫 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (27)
to closely guard a secret and not utter a single word about it; to not breathe a word
to closely guard a secret and not utter a single word about it; to not breathe a word
Showing 12 of 27 idioms containing 莫.
Example Sentences
莫名其妙地，他突然生气了，大家都不知道原因。
Mòmíngqímiào de, tā tūrán shēngqì le, dàjiā dōu bù zhīdào yuányīn.
Inexplicably, he suddenly got angry; no one knew the reason.
莫迪访问以色列 寻求加强双边合作
mò dí fǎng wèn yǐ sè liè xún qiú jiā qiáng shuāng biān gě zuò
Modi visited Israel to seek to strengthen bilateral cooperation
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yìn dù A I fēng huì xiàn gān gà yī mù : zài zǒng lǐ mò dí chū xí de chǎng gě , O p . .
An embarrassing scene at the India AI Summit: On the occasion attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Op.
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lì 弗 mò ěr zhōng gài gǔ lóng tóu zhǐ shǔ shōu zhǎng 0 . 9 4 wǎng yì yǒu dào . . .
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俄罗斯莫斯科地铁举行中国春节主题列车发车仪式
é luó sī mò sī kē dì tiě jǔ háng zhōng guó chūn jié zhǔ tí liè chē fā chē yí shì
Chinese New Year-themed train launch ceremony held in Russia's Moscow Metro
莫斯科是俄罗斯的首都。
Mòsīkē shì éluósī de shǒudū.
Moscow is the capital of Russia.
你喜欢莫扎特的音乐吗？
Nǐ xǐhuan Mòzhātè de yīnyuè ma?
Do you like Mozart's music?
莫纳迪偷了巴亚的墨镜。
Mònàdí tōu le Bāyà de mòjìng.
Mennad stole Baya's sunglasses.
在东京和莫斯科有一个航班。
Zài Dōngjīng hé Mòsīkē yǒu yī gè hángbān.
There is an air service between Tokyo and Moscow.
Character Family
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