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默
Mandarin · pinyin mò
Meanings
- silent
- to write from memory
Characters in this entry
- 默
- mò · silent; quiet, still; dark
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Mandarin tones
4 · mo4
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Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.
Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 6 senses · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
mak6
Cantonese word readings for 默. 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.
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- to be silent; to keep quiet; to keep still
- secretly; covertly; imperceptibly
- to write from memory
- (abbreviation, alt-of) short for 默示錄／默示录 (Mòshìlù, “Revelation”)
- a surname
- (Internet slang, offensive, ethnic slur) (from 黑 (“black, negro”) + 犬 (quǎn, “dog”)) nigger
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