磨mó
to grind, hone. 16 strokes, radical 石, first met in HSK 6.
Pinyin móStrokes 16Radical 石Band HSK 6Words 1
What 磨 is made of
麻 (má, hemp) and 石 (shí, stone).
石 carries the meaning — stone — and 麻 carries the sound.
How to write 磨
Strokes 1–11 write 麻, then strokes 12–16 write 石.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 磨
Words that use 磨
| 磨 | to grind, hone 指反复练习使精熟 他每天用心磨练基本技法。Every day he kept honing his basic technique. Lesson 618, 慢车学艺 · 天工开物与匠心独运 · Technological Innovation & Material Sciences |
Characters that share the sound part 麻
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 石
All 14 of them, and what the radical means, on the 石 radical page.