HSK 6 · Body

膜 mó “membrane” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 膜 means

  1. membrane
  2. film

How to say 膜

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale膜mó2nd tone, rising

膜 in a sentence

  1. 手机屏幕上贴了一层膜。

    Shǒujī píngmù shàng tiē le yì céng mó.

    There’s a protective film on the phone screen.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 牛奶热了以后，上面会有一层膜。

    Niúnǎi rè le yǐhòu, shàngmiàn huì yǒu yì céng mó.

    When milk is heated, a skin forms on top.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 膜 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 膜 (mó) with each of its parts in a different colour
膜mómembrane
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 莫cannot · mòSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 莫 (mò) hints at the sound. Compare it with mó.

How to write 膜

膜 14 strokes

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

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

Words related to 膜

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麻木mámù · numb慢性mànxìng · chronic (illness)麻醉mázuì · anaesthesia免疫miǎnyì · immunity目光mùguāng · gaze呕吐ǒutù · to vomit疲惫píbèi · exhausted屁股pìgu · bottom

FAQs

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