墨
surname Mo / abbr. for 墨西哥[Mo4 xi1 ge1], Mexico
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Mahatma Gandhi (m) is using his creativity to write a new protester's placard in the observatory's bathroom (o4). he fixed an ink stick (墨) to his head and writes on a blackboard (黑). Later he tries to use dirt (土) to clean his head, but he'll find that it won't work and some dirty words have been tattooed to his forehead (墨).
ink stick / China ink / CL:塊|块[kuai4] / corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead
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Mahatma Gandhi (m) is using his creativity to write a new protester's placard in the observatory's bathroom (o4). he fixed an ink stick (墨) to his head and writes on a blackboard (黑). Later he tries to use dirt (土) to clean his head, but he'll find that it won't work and some dirty words have been tattooed to his forehead (墨).
墨 character breakdown
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]
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Mnemonic symbol: a black board.
Hamlet received his order of aloe vera in front of the Eiffel Tower. There he stands with his big wooden box full of aloe vera plants. On his blackboard he sketched his business model: He wants to plant the aloe vera with a lot of earth in front of the Eiffel Tower, grill it and sell it to the Eiffel Tower's visitors.
Hamlet received his order of aloe vera in front of the Eiffel Tower. There he stands with his big wooden box full of aloe vera plants. On his blackboard he sketched his business model: He wants to plant the aloe vera with a lot of earth in front of the Eiffel Tower, grill it and sell it to the Eiffel Tower's visitors.
black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal / to hide (sth) away / to vilify / (loanword) to hack (computing)
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Mnemonic symbol: a black board.
Hamlet received his order of aloe vera in front of the Eiffel Tower. There he stands with his big wooden box full of aloe vera plants. On his blackboard he sketched his business model: He wants to plant the aloe vera with a lot of earth in front of the Eiffel Tower, grill it and sell it to the Eiffel Tower's visitors.
Hamlet received his order of aloe vera in front of the Eiffel Tower. There he stands with his big wooden box full of aloe vera plants. On his blackboard he sketched his business model: He wants to plant the aloe vera with a lot of earth in front of the Eiffel Tower, grill it and sell it to the Eiffel Tower's visitors.
Characters with 墨 as component
Words with 墨
(idiom) to display one's facility with words / to show off one's literary skills / (original meaning) to pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology (墨[mo4] was a reference to 繩墨|绳墨[sheng2 mo4])
compasses, set square and straight line marker (idiom); fig. established standard / norms / criteria
those who handle cinnabar are stained red; those who work with ink are stained black (idiom) / you are the product of your environment
Sentences with 墨
墨 currently does not appear in any sentence.