摸黑
mō hēi
Pinyin

Definition

摸黑
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mō hēi
  1. to grope about in the dark

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

摸
mō
  1. 1 to feel with the hand
  2. 2 to touch
  3. 3 to stroke
  4. 4 to grope
  5. 5 to steal
  6. 6 to abstract
黑
Hēi
  1. 1 abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hēi lóng jiāng]
黑夜
hēi yè
  1. 1 night
黑暗
hēi àn
  1. 1 dark
  2. 2 darkly
  3. 3 darkness
黑眼圈
hēi yǎn quān
  1. 1 dark circles (under one's eyes)
  2. 2 black eye

Idioms (20)

一条路走到黑
yī tiáo lù zǒu dào hēi
  1. 1 lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to stick to one's ways
  3. 3 to cling to one's course
丈二和尚，摸不着头脑
zhàng èr hé shang , mō bu zháo tóu nǎo
  1. 1 lit. like a three-meter high monk, you can't rub his head (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. at a total loss
偷鸡摸狗
tōu jī mō gǒu
  1. 1 to imitate the dog and steal chicken (idiom)
  2. 2 to pilfer
  3. 3 to dally with women
  4. 4 to have affairs
合眼摸象
hé yǎn mō xiàng
  1. 1 to touch an elephant with closed eyes (idiom); to proceed blindly
天下乌鸦一般黑
tiān xià wū yā yī bān hēi
  1. 1 all crows are black (idiom)
  2. 2 evil people are bad all over the world

Sample Sentences

他们摸黑辨别最无可替代的藏品，但只抢回“丢失遗产中的极小一部分”。
tāmen mōhēi biànbié zuì wúkětìdài de cángpǐn ，dàn zhǐ qiǎng huí “diūshī yíchǎn zhōng de jíxiǎo yībùfen ”。
They groped in the dark to find the most irreplaceable collection, but only managed to salvage "a small part of the lost heritage."
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