慕 (mù): to admire
慕 (mù) is a Chinese character meaning “to admire.” Classified as HSK Level 4 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 莫 (phonetic) and ⺗ (semantic). It ranks #1963 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 慕 heart. Its radical form 忄 (heart) appears in many related characters such as 忙 (máng, busy), 快 (kuài, fast, happy), 怎 (zěn, how).
Definitions
- to admire
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 慕
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 爱慕verb | ài mù | to adore |
| 慕尼黑proper-noun | mù ní hēi | München or Munich, capital of Bavaria, Germany |
| 仰慕verb | yǎng mù | to admire |
| 百慕大proper-noun | bǎi mù dà | Bermuda |
| 倾慕verb | qīng mù | to adore |
| 思慕verb | sī mù | to cherish the memory of sb |
| 慕名而来 | mù míng ér lái | to come to a place on account of its reputation (idiom) |
| 慕名 | mù míng | to admire sb's reputation |
| 那达慕noun | nà dá mù | Nadam or Games, Mongolian national harvest festival in July-August |
| 百慕达proper-noun | bǎi mù dá | Bermuda (Tw) |
| 新慕道团 | xīn mù dào tuán | neo Catechumenal way |
| 百慕大三角proper-noun | bǎi mù dà sān jiǎo | Bermuda Triangle |
| 慕道友noun | mù dào yǒu | religious investigator |
| 向慕verb | xiàng mù | to adore |
| 慕士塔格峰 | mù shì tǎ gé fēng | Muztagh Ata, second highest peak of the Pamir Mountains |
慕 appears in 32 compound words: 38 as the first character, 38 as the last, and 25 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 慕 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
虽然失败了，但他慕不气馁，继续努力。
suī rán shī bài le , dàn tā mù bù qì něi , jì xù nǔ lì .
Though he failed, he did not lose heart and continued to persevere.
历史上的今天/1958年伊朗驻华大使艾兰慕抵台上任
lì shǐ shàng de jīn tiān 1 9 5 8 nián yī lǎng zhù huá dà shǐ ài lán mù dǐ tái shàng rèn
Today in history / In 1958, Iranian Ambassador to China Alan Mu arrived in Taiwan to take office
邓国平:国盟权力重排,慕尤丁“退而不休”,哈迪“退而不离”?
dèng guó píng : guó méng quán lì chóng pái , mù yóu dīng tuì ér bù xiū , hā dí tuì ér bù lí ?
Deng Guoping: The BN power rearrangement, Muhyiddin "retreats", Hadi "retreats"?
羡慕善于社交的同事,总是想改变自己?你只是没...
xiàn mù shàn yú shè jiāo de tóng shì , zǒng shì xiǎng gǎi biàn zì jǐ ? nǐ zhī shì méi . . .
Envy your sociable colleagues and always want to change yourself? You just don't...
.../金慧成春训首秀灌3打点!皮肤好到球迷羡慕 搞笑曝护肤祕诀
. . . jīn huì chéng chūn xùn shǒu xiù guàn 3 dǎ diǎn ! pí fū hǎo dào qiú mí xiàn mù gǎo xiào pù hù fū 祕 jué
.../Kim Hye-sung made his spring training debut with 3 RBIs! The skin is so good that fans envy it and reveal skin care secrets in a funny way
欧洲头条丨慕尼黑的沉默,比争吵更刺耳
ōu zhōu tóu tiáo 丨 mù ní hēi de chén mò , bǐ zhēng chǎo gēng cì ěr
European headlines丨Munich's silence is harsher than quarrels
汤姆母亲是汉堡人，父亲是慕尼黑人。
Tāngmǔ mǔqīn shì hànbǎo rén, fùqīn shì Mùníhēi rén.
Tom's mother is from Hamburg and his father is from Munich.
你们家去北海道旅游是真的么？我羡慕你。
Nǐmen jiā qù Běihǎidào lǚyóu shì zhēn de me? wǒ xiànmù nǐ.
Is it true that your family will travel in Hokkaido? I envy you.
我一点也不羡慕你的生活。
Wǒ yīdiǎn yě bù xiànmù nǐ de shēnghuó.
I don't envy your life. Not even a little bit.
我羨慕他的新房子。
Wǒ xiànmù tā de xīn fángzi.
I envied his new house.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the ⺗ (heart) component
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