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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 摸着石头过河
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 摸着石头过河 | mō zhe shí tou guò hé | - to wade across the river, feeling for footholds as one goes (idiom) - to advance cautiously, step by step - to feel one's way forward |
List Ranking:
Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.
| HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | 50,160 | 44,614 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 摸 | mō | - to feel with the hand - to touch - to stroke - to grope - to steal - to abstract |
| 摸 | mó | - variant of 摹[mo2] |
| 着 | zhāo | - a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]) - trick; tactic - (dialect) okay; all right - (dialect) to put in; to add |
| 着 | zháo | - to touch - to come in contact with - to feel - to be affected by - to catch fire - to burn - (coll.) to fall asleep - (after a verb) hitting the mark - succeeding in |
| 着 | zhe | - aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state |
| 着 | zhuó | - to wear (clothes) - to contact - to use - to apply |
| 石 | shí | - surname Shi - abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2jia1zhuang1], the capital of Hebei |
| 石 | dàn | - dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗[dou3]; one hundred liters - ancient pr. [shi2] |
| 石 | shí | - rock - stone - stone inscription - one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1] |
| 头 | tóu | - head - hair style - the top - end - beginning or end - a stub - remnant - chief - boss - side - aspect - first - leading - classifier for pigs or livestock - CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 头 | tou | - suffix for nouns |
| 过 | guō | - surname Guo |
| 过 | guò | - to cross - to go over - to pass (time) - to celebrate (a holiday) - to live - to get along - excessively - too- |
| 过 | guo | - (experienced action marker) |
| 河 | hé | - river (CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]) - (bound form) the Yellow River - (bound form) the Milky Way - (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉[he2fen3] |
Other Words Containing 摸着石头过河
Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.
| Word | HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
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