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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 摸鱼

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
摸鱼 mō yú - to catch fish
- (fig.) to loaf on the job; to be slack; to take it easy

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
- - - 67,589 36,884

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- to feel with the hand
- to touch
- to stroke
- to grope
- to steal
- to abstract
- variant of 摹[mo2]
- surname Yu
- fish (CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3])
- used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鮑魚|鲍鱼[bao4yu2], alligators and crocodiles 鱷魚|鳄鱼[e4yu2] and octopi 章魚|章鱼[zhang1yu2])

Other Words Containing 摸鱼

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
浑水摸鱼 - - 35,944 55,220 47,646
混水摸鱼 - - 59,729 64,284 71,395