to wade across the river, feeling for footholds as one goes (idiom); to advance cautiously, step by step; to feel one's way forward
trad. 摸著石頭過河
Also written 摸著石頭過河【mō zhe shí tou guò hé】
Characters in this word
6摸
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to feel with the hand, to touch, to stroke, to grope, to steal, to abstract
- Pinyin
- mō
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 2473 of 2500
着
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variant of 著|着[zhao1]
- Pinyin
- zhāo
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 71 of 2500
石
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surname Shi, abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1], the capital of Hebei
- Pinyin
- Shí
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 7503 of 2500
头
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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]
- Pinyin
- tóu
- Traditional
- 頭
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 773 of 2500
过
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surname Guo
- Pinyin
- Guō
- Traditional
- 過
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 73 of 2500
河
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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[he2 fen3]
- Pinyin
- hé
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 4501 of 2500