抹
Meanings · maat3
- to wipe
- to mop
- to slip something off
- to wipe out a memory
- to sentence to prison
Meanings · mut3
- to smear
- to wipe
- to erase
- classifier for wisps of cloud, light-beams etc
- to plaster
- to spread
- to daub
- to bypass
Meanings · mut6
- to smear
- to wipe
- to erase
- classifier for wisps of cloud, light-beams etc
- to plaster
- to spread
- to daub
- to bypass
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Reading difference from Unihan
- 抹 has the reading maat3 here; Unihan’s citation reading is mut3. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 抹 maat3 as its own entry.
Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 抹 mā CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto wipe
- 抹 mǒ CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto smear; to wipe; to erase; classifier for wisps of cloud, light-beams etc
- 抹 mò CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto plaster; to go around; to skirt
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: mo3. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 15 senses · 3 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
maat3 · mut3 · mut6
Cantonese word readings for 抹. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- to smear, to apply
- to wipe
- to erase; to remove
- (literary) to play (dominos)
- (literary) to cut
- (literary) to twirl
- (literary) to look; to aim; to glance
- Classifier for rays of sunlight, rosy clouds, etc..
character
- to smear (using cement or lime)
- to keep close to and turn around
- (literary) to touch
- (literary) to bend; to lower
character
- (colloquial) to wipe
- (colloquial) to press (something) and move one's hand downwards
- (colloquial) to dismiss (someone from their position)
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