HSK 6 · Body

麻木 mámù “numb” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 麻木 means

  1. numb
  2. apathetic
  3. insensitive

How to say 麻木

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale麻má2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale木mù4th tone, falling

麻木 in a sentence

  1. 在外面站了一个小时，我的脚都冻麻木了。

    Zài wàimiàn zhàn le yí ge xiǎoshí, wǒ de jiǎo dōu dòng mámù le.

    After standing outside for an hour, my feet were numb with cold.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 坐得太久，腿有点儿麻木。

    Zuò de tài jiǔ, tuǐ yǒudiǎnr mámù.

    I’ve been sitting too long and my legs have gone a bit numb.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 麻木 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 麻 (má) with each of its parts in a different colour
麻máhemp
  • 广shelter · guǎng
  • 林forest · lín
The character 木 (mù) with each of its parts in a different colour
木mùtree
  • 十ten · shí
  • 八eight · bā

How to write 麻木

麻 11 strokes · 木 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

麻木 (mámù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 麻木 (mámù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 麻木

Words with 麻

麻烦máfan · trouble麻痹mábì · paralysis麻醉mázuì · anaesthesia

Words with 木

木头mùtou · wood

More words: People, Body & Health

临床línchuáng · clinical聋哑lóngyǎ · deaf and mute麻痹mábì · paralysis脉搏màibó · pulse慢性mànxìng · chronic (illness)麻醉mázuì · anaesthesia免疫miǎnyì · immunity膜mó · membrane

FAQs

麻木 (mámù) means “numb” or “apathetic”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it mámù: má with a 2nd tone, then mù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 麻木 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type mamu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 麻木 from the suggestions. Typing mamu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
麻木 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.